Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...missing by his wife. DeSimone has a record of cargo thefts and had just served time for a truck hijacking. The FBI believes he was murdered in a dispute among the thieves over distribution of the Lufthansa loot. New York police are not so sure he is dead. Also thought to be a victim of the gang's dissension was Steven Edwards, 31, an ex-convict whose bullet-riddled body was found in his New York apartment...
Specialists in the field now estimate that there are at least 2 million cases per year of child abuse, not 1 million as thought earlier. Even granting that the statistic seems inflated because more cases are reported now, experts think that there has been a substantial real increase in the practice. Last year's Supreme Court decision allowing teachers to spank children in school, thinks Yale Psychologist Edward Zigler, sets an example for institutional abuse, an offense that is even more widespread than abuse by parents. The business of child pornography flourishes. In Los Angeles the police estimate that...
...having babies just in the nick of time. There's a difference between what one says at 20 and what one says at 38." Roiphe persuasively argues that the dogmas against children-or at least, against having children-are undergoing revision. "There has indeed been a swing of thought against children, but it was against this whole idea that one must have a family," she says. "Now I think it's probably going to swing back. All the excesses of the women's movement, including that one shouldn't 'look nice...
Every member of TIME'S Board of Economists opposes a constitutional amendment that would require balancing the budget in each year. Similarly, all shudder at the thought of a constitutional convention, at which extremists might bring up all sorts of far-out schemes to change the Constitution. Said Beryl Sprinkel: "I don't want to lose the freedom we've got, so I am very concerned about having a constitutional convention." However, added David Grove...
...thought it was time for me to tell the truth." That's what we thought we were getting all along from Sophia Loren, of course, but now she has told all to Writer A.E. Hotchner in Sophia: Living and Loving (Morrow; $9.95). Or nearly all. In Manhattan last week, at the beginning of a six-city U.S. promotion tour, Sophia shrugged off reports that Peter Sellers, who had starred with her in The Millionairess, was upset about not being cited as one of her loves. "I only wrote about things that were important to me," she replied, scarcely batting...