Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consent. They hit the highway. Fred thumbed a ride with a 19-year-old college boy named William Braverman, killed him in broad daylight with a service .45, buried him in a quarry, jauntily decorated the grave with a rusty antifreeze tin, and headed west with Diane in his victim's shiny, red and black 1953 Plymouth hardtop. He told the girl he felt no remorse. "It don't bother me if I don't know the people," he said gravely. "There is no such thing as conscience. It's just a feeling of fear that...
Meanwhile, a small pyre must be built for those who had helped prepare the plot against the doctors. They, said Beria's communique, "have already been arrested and brought to criminal responsibility." Besides Ryumin and Ignatiev, there was another victim: Lidiya F. Timashuk, a grandmother and a physician. Lidiya Timashuk was decorated last January with the Order of Lenin,the Soviet Union's top order, "for exposing the doctor assassins." "She fought," said Pravda, "as one fights with enemies of the homeland-a life and death struggle." Last week Dr. Timashuk was stripped of her decoration because...
...East River, Paris its crime passionnel. But the sex sadist given to mutilation and multiple murders is a London specialty-there had been, for example, Jack the Ripper, the most storied of all, with at least six corpses in 1888; the Blackout Killer of 1942 (with four victims); the Vampire, who killed at least nine between 1944 and 1949, and ceremoniously drank a glass of each victim's blood. Now there was the Strangler of Notting Hill...
...Jane Froman's supporting cast last week were Accordionist Gypsy Markoff, another Clipper victim, who asked $1,000,000 for her own injuries and loss of income, and Jane's ex-husband Ross, who sued for $100,000, to cover her hospital bills and his own loss of her company. The three had lost an early round, in 1949, when Pan Am's lawyers invoked the Warsaw Convention, a 1929 international agreement which sets a ceiling of $8,291.67 damages in an international flight accident. Now the suits charge that Pan American Pilot R. O. D. Sullivan...
Despite these advantages, however, many committees will be reluctant to accept this change. Irresponsible charges draw publicity and votes, leaving their victim unable to answer back. But the nominal purpose of investigating committees is ferreting out information, not attracting public acclaim. If investigating groups refuse to abandon their politically lucrative practices willingly, Congress should force these curbs on them. Keating's committee has proven, so far, that granting individuals the right of self-defense does not hinder investigations. A majority of both houses should make his standards binding on all similar groups...