Word: suspectibility
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...curse of our times," says Columbia Professor Emeritus Mark Van Doren. "It could be a sign of very deep disease." Most critics would probably diagnose only a nagging headache. Still, to the extent that they are aware of p.r.'s largely invisible operations, growing numbers of people suspect that they are being manipulated by hidden "image merchants." Sometimes the p.r. man is regarded as merely an inventor of gimmicks, the old-fashioned pitchman or pressagent with pretensions. Sometimes he is regarded as a new creature with Big Brotherly skills in brainwashing. In fact, the good public relations...
...behavior still frustrate and hurt some of Catholicism's loyal sons and daughters-and few of Father Kavanaugh's readers will doubt that his concern for their human tragedies is both passionate and sincere. Nonetheless, many Catholics who hope and pray for renewal may have cause to suspect that Kavanaugh's angry and oversimplified criticism can only hurt rather than help the forces of change within the church...
...arrested a surprisingly respectable group of 16 Negro citizens. Among them were Assistant Junior High School Principal Herman Ferguson, 47, Brooklyn Schoolteacher Ursula West, 28, and Michelle Kaurouma, 24, the attractive wife of a French Guinean student. At almost the same time in Philadelphia, police arrested a 17th suspect...
Star Witnesses. In Russo's case, McGee reported, reactions to a series of questions led a polygraph operator to suspect deception. Moreover, the test seemed to indicate that Russo had a psychopathic personality. But agents from Garrison's office took the list of questions away from the polygraph operator and told him not to say anything. When Garrison presented his case against Clay Shaw at a hearing, Russo and Bundy were his star witnesses. Garrison insists that Shaw, under the name of Clay Bertrand, met in 1963 with Lee Harvey Oswald and David W. Ferric, who committed suicide...
...Ruled by a 6-3 vote that an indicted suspect cannot properly be made to stand in a police line-up without his attorney present. The suspect may not, however, refuse police demands that he speak to enable a witness to identify him. In a related decision, the court found that a suspect may not decline to provide a handwriting sample even if his attorney is not present...