Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...William H. Sullivan, 45, strolled up to a group of American pacifists, who had stopped long enough to wet their whistles before flying on to Hanoi. At the sight of Sullivan, U.C.L.A. Professor Franz Schurmann, 41, reelingly announced: "I'm a subversive." "I hope you enjoy your adolescent behavior," snapped the ambassador. "Say 'adolescent' again and I'll fight you!" roared Schurmann and put up his fists. It got no further, of course, as embassy aides and Novelist Mary McCarthy, a member of Schumann's group, stepped between the two men. Next day Schurmann sent...
Crucial to such reform is a more rational definition of criminal behavior. For example, half of all county-jail inmates are in for drunkenness-something far better treated at public-health detoxification centers. In mass arrests of small drug pushers, police mainly cut supplies and raise prices, which addicts then meet by more thefts and burglaries. In New York City, the daily toll is almost $1,000,000, and addicts account for half the city's convicts. Not only are big suppliers untouched; a national trend to mandatory sentences and no parole or probation in drug cases is defeating...
...this suggests that prisons are slowly absorbing a key lesson of modern psychology: desirable behavior is best induced by "positive reinforcement"-rewards rather than punishment. Thus, federal prisons and 24 states now use work-release schemes pioneered by North Carolina, where 12,000 select convicts have earned $10 million in ten years-even working as court reporters, while partly supporting their families, partly paying their prison keep and landing future jobs. At California's San Joaquin County Jail, one recent prisoner was an ex-airplane dealer who spent all day flying charter planes, duly landed for the night lockup...
Antenna Tail. To determine the behavior of objects penetrating the earth at high speed-a science that Sandia has named "terradynamics"-engineers have used projectiles weighing from 5 Ibs. to 6,000 Ibs. that strike the earth vertically at speeds of from 41 m.p.h. to 1,870 m.p.h., depending on the drop altitude and method of release. Some are merely shoved out of airplanes or hovering helicopters; others are dive-bombed or rocketed to boost their velocities. The best penetrators, Sandia has found, are pencil-shaped missiles of heavy metal that are at least 8 to 10 times longer than...
...still bears the scars of his days as a Buchenwald prisoner. Though Pierre-Paul Schweft-zer, 55, spoke rarely, he got undivided attention when he did. As managing director of the 107-nation International Monetary Fund-which acts as an arbiter of exchange rates, guardian of fiscal good behavior among sovereign states, and rescue squad for countries in financial trouble-Schweitzer holds a pivotal role not only in the present struggle to shore up the world's money system but also in the reforms that seem certain to come...