Word: victimizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buick they claimed had led them on an 80-m.p.h. chase was tested on a treadmill to prove it was still capable of such high speeds; a similar car was used to re-enact the shooting for photographic exhibits. A ballistics expert testified that gunpowder burns on the victim's shirt proved the gun had been fired inside the car, and a physiologist was brought in to verify that a man thrown off balance would tend to make a reflexive clutching movement that could pull a trigger...
Peking's People's Daily was not mentioning names last week, but its readers knew well enough who had been struck down: Peking Mayor Peng Chen, 67, long considered one of the most powerful men in Red China and now the latest victim of Mao's purge of "antiparty and anti-Socialist revisionists" (TIME, May 13). Quick-witted and confident, Peng was known to Westerners as Peking's "smiling mayor" and had risen to become first secretary of Peking's Municipal Communist Party Committee and a high-ranking member of both the national party...
...assumption that the claims of the victim are sufficiently satisfied if the offender is punished by society becomes less persuasive as society in its dealings with offenders increasingly emphasizes the reformative aspects of punishment. Indeed, in the public mind the interests of the offender may not infrequently seem to be placed before those of his victim...
...first prize winner in the Festival's international competition for new music, begins with a lengthy, cello solo, working complex variations of a four-note theme, builds to a climax with the drums thundering and a clarinet shrieking above a surging mass of sound. Tishchenko does not fall victim to the rhythmic fecklessness that plagues so many of the post-Webernists. Even his quiet passages have a discernible pulse, and the faster movements bristle with a tough rhythmic muscularity...
Died. Robert F. Allen, 29, Tucson insurance salesman who two months ago participated in a daring operation aimed at arresting his bone cancer by swapping diseased tissue with another bone cancer victim, Pennsylvania Salesman Harry T. Griffith; in Tucson, Ariz., two weeks after Griffith succumbed...