Word: victimizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tournament's two losers, met Friday night in what amounted to a consolation game preceding the B.U.-Cornell finale. Between an early-season overtime win over Brown and Wednesday's near-upset of Cornell, the Huskies had bumbled through a lackluster December, and figured to be an easy victim for the Crimson...
...legal record that Dr. Sam Sheppard is entitled to a massive grievance against the press. After serving nearly ten years of a life sentence for the 1954 bludgeon-murder of his wife, the Ohio osteopath won a second trial on the ground that newspaper stories had made him the victim of "inherently prejudicial publicity" - and subsequent acquittal...
...prosecution appeared to have just about everything going for it: a motive for the murder, the defendant's admitted access to the victim, an eyewitness to describe the killing in gruesome detail, a famous medical expert to support the accuser's testimony and, not least, a prosecutor who had an extraordinary record of 30 murder trials without an acquittal. Yet when the verdict came last week, it was Defense Attorney F. Lee Bailey-himself undefeated in 19 homicide cases (TIME, Dec. 9)-who shouted "Hooray!" After just four hours and 27 minutes of deliberation, a Freehold, N.J., jury...
British Prime Minister Harold Wilson's deflationary policies have claimed an unexpected victim: the Fleet Street press. Troubles have been building steadily, but because of the overall slowdown, ad linage has dropped an estimated 25% from last year; only five of the eleven London dailies are still making a profit. This month the Guardian was forced to announce an austerity program: to save $1,400,000 next year, it will lay off 36 writers and editors and cut back other departments as much...
...Victim's Victim. Bailey's passion for preparation helped win the Sheppard case, which he tackled for sheer challenge at the urging of Sheppard's friends as far back as 1961. With no promise of a fee, he scoured 9,808 pages of briefs and testimony, won a Supreme Court reversal last June on historic grounds of "prejudicial publicity." Then he discarded the 1954 defense theory that Marilyn Sheppard's killer was a stranger. For. the 1966 retrial, he says, "we had to destroy Marilyn...