Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...called K-mesons. These particles normally decay rapidly into other smaller bits of matter, but some of them seem to live longer than they theoretically should. Stannard speculates that the K-mesons may actually do a "time-flip" into the Faustian universe, reverse their process of decay and grow younger. Then they flip back and resume their disintegration-while appearing only to have decayed more slowly...
District Attorney Evelle Younger, 48, of Los Angeles County, was deeply concerned by the Supreme Court's Miranda decision (TIME, June 24). Like many another law-enforcement officer, Younger feared that because of the high court's holding that every suspect must be reminded "prior to questioning" of his right to silence and to legal counsel, there would be a virtual end to all voluntary confessions and a sharp and disheartening decline in successful prosecutions...
Immediately after the decision, ex-FBI Agent Younger ordered a Miranda survey taken throughout his county, which has the largest criminal-case load in the U.S. (see cover story). Younger's study covers a three-week period in June and July and deals with an impressive total of 2,780 felony cases. Younger admits that he was "amazed" by the results of the survey...
...percent age of criminal cases," largely because many defendants were either caught red-handed in the act or observed by witnesses to the crime. Further, of 790 defendants who were informed of their rights under Miranda, 433 - or nearly 55% - went ahead and made a confession anyway. Apparently, said Younger, "in every human being, however noble or depraved, there is a thing called conscience"; and "large or small, that conscience usually, or at least often, drives a guilty person to confess." Then he added: "Those who hope (or fear) these decisions will eliminate confessions as a legitimate law-enforcement tool...
...songs and field hollers nourishes the blues the way the rich soil of the Delta sprouts cotton. The result is that all the Chicago blues are shot through with the raw purity of emotion, the lyricism and rhythmic subtlety of the Mississippi country style. Now a whole generation of younger performers have added technical polish and a hard driving sound that reflects the pace and pressures of city life...