Word: victimizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world had hardly learned of Martin Luther King's murder in Memphis before speculation began that the civil rights leader had been the victim of a well-planned conspiracy. The rumor mills were lubricated in part by the assiduously cultivated doubts that some still entertain about the killing of John F. Kennedy. In this case, however, the conspiracy theorists could point to the fact that, though the gunman was clearly identified, he remained -for all the far-flung resources of the FBI-mysteriously at large...
Long, Light Sleep. At London's Charing Cross Hospital, a team led by Dr. Peter Nixon relies on sleep to ease the coronary occlusion victim through the first dangerous days. Their reasoning: pain and fear may be important factors in throwing a weakened, damaged heart into fatal arrest. They give their patients two sedative drugs, promethazine and pethidine (a synthetic equivalent of morphine), to keep them in a light sleep for one to seven days; the average has been 2½ days. Nurses wake the patient three times a day for hygiene, to take liquid food...
Undefeated in Eastern play, the Crimson must play Cornell, Williams, and Princeton in the next four days. Cornell should be the least formidable of the three opponents. Big Red number one player Mark Taylor, a smooth-stroking lefty, was the easy victim of Harvard last year when the Crimson triumphed, 8-1. Cornell may lack depth, but at least it is weak...
...kids, who looked reasonably neat, approached me and asked to borrow a quarter," Harry Brandt Ayers, the victim of the attack, said yesterday. "As I reached into my pocket, he hooked his arm around my free arm and threw me to the ground," Ayers, 33, said...
Objections to the law had been raised by attorneys for Charles ("Batman") Jackson and two henchmen who were accused of a 1966 kidnap during which their victim, a young truck driver, was taken from Connecticut to New Jersey and tied to a tree (he suffered rope burns). The lawyers argued that since the death penalty could only be imposed by a jury, the defendants were being made to risk a harsher punishment if they chose jury trial; by pleading guilty or by asking to be tried by a judge alone, they would not face death. Speaking...