Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...villas and selected 71 works, 63 of them never before exhibited. They ranged from a postage-stamp-sized cartoon to the 35 ft. by 55 ft. July 14th (Bastille Day) curtain commissioned by Paris' People's Theater, portraying a dead minotaur, a great human eagle carrying his victim, and an old man bearing a young...
Violence has become almost habit in the black belt when civil rights workers collide with unyielding segregationists. In Americus, Ga. (pop. 14,482), the confrontation started in 1963, and mediation efforts so far have failed. So when sudden death came one midnight last week, the only surprises were the victim's color and his disinterest in the contest...
California has just become the first state to offer financial aid to those injured in violent crimes and to the families of murder victims. Under a law signed by Governor Edmund G. Brown, the state department of social welfare will aid any victim, regardless of income level, with roughly the same scale of payments now given to families on relief. This scale ranges from $162 a month for a couple with one dependent child to $388 a month for a couple with nine dependent children...
...hemophilia victim lives in constant danger. From minor injuries to any form of surgery, the least leak in his circulatory system may require massive plasma transfusions as doctors try to supply a lifesaving amount of a missing clot-promoting protein. But all too often, new blood or plasma cannot be pumped into a "bleeder" in sufficient quantity without risk of overloading his circulatory system. Some concentrates of the vital protein are available, but they are expensive. Now Stanford Physiologist Judith Graham Pool has developed a simple, cheap and effective method of concentrating the protein in so potent a form that...
...humorist, perfectly capable of reeling out one outlandishly felicitous conceit after another. The conceits abound in this book. "Get divorced while you're young," says one character to another. This is not funny. It is in the same key as that timeless anecdote of the Indian victim, trussed and scalped, who is asked bv his saviors if he is in any pain. "Only when I laugh," he says...