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...adolescent follower of Meek said: "I'm for violence, because we have pleaded for the last 400 years!" A Negro woman snapped: "I've been integrated all I need to be integrated! I've got these freckles and this red hair as a result of the rape that took place on my great-grandmother in Mississippi! I don't need any more integration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public TV: Wait Till Next Week? | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

...entitled to any consideration by the court. You were so ravenous that nothing could prevent you from committing this treacherous act. You were determined to satisfy your passionate desires." He then proceeded to sentence two Negro defendants-James and John Giles-to the gas chamber for the rape of a white girl near Spencerville, Md. In a separate trial, a third defendant, Joseph Johnson, was also convicted and condemned. Though the three hardly thought so then, they were actually lucky to get the death sentence. The punishment was so severe that a group of white citizens began their own investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criminal Justice: Lucky Death Sentence | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

Television specials scheduled for this season bank heavily on entertainment, but not all entertainment is-well, entertainment. In the past week, for example, the networks have shown three specials that dealt with the plight of old people, the plight of a rape victim, and the plight of a family with a mongolian child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Specials: Tragi-Triptych | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

...latest imitative incarnation lacks Lee Marvin and much else besides. An arguably lovable villain (James Coburn) plugs an enemy with a long-distance rifle, then takes from the corpse a map indicating a cache of glommed Government gold. Before setting out on the treasure hunt, he finds time to rape the local sheriff's daughter. When confronted by the indignant father, he claims roguishly that the murder was self-defense, the rape merely "assault with a friendly weapon." The lumpish lawman not only buys the story, but comes along on the gold rush. Ultimately, the thief heads for Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Stolen Goods | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

...regain his comic stature. In part, the blame may lie with a bland, spiritless script that fancies itself original in lampooning western cliches, yet has the temerity to steal Jack Benny's most famous joke: "Your money or your life." Pause. "Well?" "I'm thinking." Theft and rape may sometimes be forgivable; plagiarism never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Stolen Goods | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

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