Word: violent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...zooming along the shoulders. Once in front of their tormentors, some irate motorists immediately slowed to about 15 m.p.h. out of spite. "One semitrailer slammed on his brakes so fast he blew out a tire. I was lucky I didn't crash into him," recalled Lipski. "People got violent. We didn't expect them to try to kill us, but they did." When the procession reached Detroit it stretched half a mile or more and numbered some 600 cars. There was nothing illegal about what had happened. En route back to Ann Arbor, however, Lipski and Long were...
...situation obviously calls for more than palliatives-and it extends beyond Detroit. So far, neither President Ford nor Jimmy Carter has placed much emphasis on the plight of the large cities. The outbreak in Detroit-a chilling reminder of the violent riots that resulted in 43 deaths and more than $100 million in damage there in 1967-should signal to both candidates that the cities' cries for help can go unheeded only at grave risk. Aside from America's mayors, however, most politicians seem blithely willing to take that risk. Michigan's Republican Governor William Milliken...
...best the figures only show the situation worsening at a slower pace. Last year, about 21 serious crimes were committed every minute; a violent crime like rape or assault, every 31 seconds. The FBI clocked one murder every 26 minutes. The bleakest news in the report: only a fifth of last year's 11.3 million serious crimes resulted in arrest...
...object of his jealousy, violent and without limits. Friends and family, even memories became a threat to our relationship." So writes Actress Liv Ullmann, 37, describing life with Swedish Film Maker Ingmar Bergman. Liv's recollections of her former lover, current director (Face to Face) and the father of her daughter Linn, 9, are published this week in her autobiography titled The Change. If Ullmann takes a sharp focus on Bergman, she is equally exacting about some other famous men she has met. Among them: Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and former President Richard Nixon...
Juvenile crime surges upward each year. Violent teen-agers terrorize communities. The number of youths arrested for murder, robbery, rape and assault has leaped 254% since 1960. An aroused citizenry, politicians, judges and police are now talking tough. Bills have been proposed in California, Illinois and New York to try "dangerous" teen-agers in adult courts and hit them with adult sentences...