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...Gluecks also disproved the idea that glandular disturbances cause delinquency, since their staff physician found such disturbances among 32.9 per cent of the offenders and 34.3 per cent of the non-offenders. They also showed that delinquents are not more emotionally unstable than normal children. In fact, their study revealed that there was emotional weakness among 49 per cent of the delinquents as contrasted with 56 per cent of the non-delinquents...
...composed of five factors with subcategories (see box). The scores for each subcategory represent the percentage of delinquents among the 1,000 cases of Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency who fell into the particular subcategory. For example, if a particular child has been harshly disciplined by his father, he is scored 72.5, because 72.5 per cent of the boys in the study whose fathers were always or sometimes over-strict in their discipline, were found to be delinquent. If a child scores 300 or more in the Social Prediction Table, his chances of becoming a delinquent are high...
Major address at the 1959 session will concern the present approach to world trade, which many economists think is out of date. Among the speakers will be William Ziegler, professor of International Relations and Economics at the Business School...
There are some better performances among the seven stars. As Shotover's indescribable daughter Hesione, Diana Wynward is splendid, and Pamela Brown is at least intriguing as her sister Ariadne, Lady Utterword. (They are not the "demon women" Hector describes, but that is Shaw's fault more than theirs.) Ellie Dunn, who begins as a romantic ingenue and becomes one of the quietly scary, hard-as-nails young women only Shaw could create, is played well enough by Diane Cilento...
Immigration to this country when very young appears also to be a factor among boys who are repeatedly in trouble, the Gluecks discovered...