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Although the looters of New York City can never be excused for their wanton destruction of personal property, we find the tyrannical actions of the Marquette Park racists and the Nazis of Chicago's South Side to be far more heinous. We would rather walk among the looters of human possessions in total darkness than the pillagers of human rights in the brightest sunshine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 12, 1977 | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

Alan E. Heimert '49, master of Eliot House, and Laura Gordon Fisher, senior tutor for the House, sent a letter to all H-entry members saying the meeting concerned "the continuing pre-adolescent behavior of some entry members culminating in the wanton destructiveness of Thursday evening...

Author: By Susan D. Chira and Keith Salkowski, S | Title: Broken Door Raises Eliot Officials' Ire | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

...woman's constitutional right to an abortion. The conviction of Dr. Edelin for manslaughter following an abortion he performed on October 3, 1973 was the triumph of a prosecutor anxious to limit the right to an abortion in this country. In finding insufficient evidence to prove any "wanton" or "reckless" conduct to a viable human being, the Court has reasserted its faith in doctors' good medical judgments in performing abortions and in the rights of patients...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Edelin Appeal And Women's Rights | 1/7/1977 | See Source »

...specified at least four bases for our appeal besides, as the story puts it, "that the jury found Edelin guilty of charges that were not those in the original accusations." Dr. Edelin was charged with manslaughter, which, if alleged to be involuntary, requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt of "wanton and reckless conduct" rather than, as the story puts it, "ruthless and reckless conduct...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/6/1977 | See Source »

...option on The Melvin Dummar Story. NBC, CBS and ABC all are producing specials on Hughes. The British Broadcasting Corp. and CTV are teaming up to produce a 90-minute dramatized documentary. Seven books are in the works, including a William Morrow edition titled His Weird and Wanton Ways: The Secret of Howard Hughes, by Richard Mathison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: The Secret Life of Howard Hughes | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

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