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Last week lawmen were searching for leads and suspects in the grisly slayings near Kilgore (pop. 11,000), an affluent town 100 miles east of Dallas. Officials were so stumped that Rusk County Sheriff Mike Strong brought in two psychics to comb the oilfield where the victims were found for any clues to the puzzle. Ballistic and autopsy reports showed that two guns had been used to fire eleven bullets into the five bodies. Some $2,000 was missing from the restaurant cash register, and jewelry, billfolds, purses and other valuables had been taken from the victims...
...been dying off without being replaced: 39% are 65 or older, while only 28% are under 45. Admits Hoagland: "We should not take a loyal readership for granted." The age of the Monitor's following is in turn a factor in discouraging advertisers, even though the readership is affluent (median household income: $32,000). Thus the paper now contains only about 25% advertising, compared with up to 60% in many other dailies, a level that Hoagland suggests the Monitor could some day reach. Says...
Poverty causes crime, but not in the way most people assume. The poor are more likely to be arrested, convicted, and sentenced to long terms than their more affluent fellow criminals. In a single case during the 1960s, according to Reiman, seven executives were found to have rigged electrical equipment prices, in a scheme that cost the public over a billion dollars. They were sentenced to 30 days each. In 1973, by contrast, the average sentence for burglary was five years...
...membership were to choose-or be asked-to find a new home, one place it asssuredly would not go is the Soviet Union. Despite the Soviets' complaints about the way the U.S. fulfills its responsibilities as host country, they are not about to accept an influx of affluent and inquisitive foreigners who could "contaminate" the natives. Besides, says one top British official, "administratively, it would be a nightmare, and security-wise, worse still...
...incident was the fourth arson attack against Jews in West Hartford (pop. 61,000), an affluent suburb of Connecticut's capital, in less than six weeks. The first fire badly charred the wooden interior of the Young Israel of West Hartford Synagogue. Four days later, a second blaze gutted Emanuel Synagogue, a few blocks from the site of the first arson. The next day, flames raced through the home of Rabbi Solomon Krupka, spiritual leader of Young Israel. He and his family were away; six guests staying there managed to escape unharmed...