Word: specked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...daresay that most of the whites who fear "the high incidence of crime and violence in the black ghettos" would not have been alarmed had respectable, middle-class white families named Speck or Whitman moved in next door last June. This summer's headlines suggest that perhaps we crime-fearing white men had better investigate the violence in white souls before looking for it in black streets...
...Wyoming in 1958. There were the two murderers of the Clutter family, Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, now enshrined in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, the year's most talked-about bestseller. Only last month, when eight student nurses were slain in a Chicago town house, and Richard Speck was charged with the crime, an official there called the murders "the crime of the century." Sadly, Austin Police Chief Robert A. Miles observed last week: "It isn't any more...
...spread of community clinics that can make instant help available to all. Necessary, too, is more money and manpower for research. Far too little is known about the mass murderer because he erupts infrequently?and even less frequently survives to be examined. Psychiatrists firmly believe that Richard Speck, accused of the nurse killings, ought to be studied intensively rather than punished by society, if found guilty. Pilot studies in Massachusetts and Illinois of juvenile offenders indicate that many potential psychotics may be identifiable and curable while in their teens, and an important segment of the medical profession has not given...
Grim Optimism. The most dramatic example of Miranda's early effects is the way Chicago police have handled Richard Speck, accused killer of eight nurses, in what the coroner called "the crime of the century." The police were so fearful of prejudicing their case that they did not even question Speck during the first three weeks after his arrest. Ironically, they seem also to have ignored another historic Supreme Court decision-the recent reversal of Dr. Sam Sheppard's murder conviction on grounds of "virulent" pretrial publicity. While recoiling from Speck himself, the Chicago police have talked about...
...Chick's Heartbeat. NASA Consultant Quentin L. Hartwig reported a fascinating example of the application of space research to earth-bound medicine. To record the impact of a speck of interplanetary dust on a man or vehicle in space, Engineer Vernon Rogallo devised an instrument so sensitive that it registered the force of a single grain of salt dropped less than one-half of an inch. Then, at the NASA Ames research center in California, Rogallo overheard a cafeteria conversation between two biologists: How could they record the heartbeat of a six-day-old chick embryo without piercing...