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...Dershowitz. In the '60s, informers by the hundreds infiltrated not only radical movements but also Southern racist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. Sara Jane Moore's lurch into the limelight has only renewed the debate about law enforcement's almost unchecked reliance on the breed...
...group of four young people, including three Harvard undergraduates, sat around and listened to Cleaver that night in August. Cleaver had come to visit his friend Jack Caball, an American expatriate novelist (one of a dying breed) and talk about his pants. The setting was intimate--the room in the Latin Quarter of Paris was dark and warm, with wood ceiling beams, tall bookshelves, a Calder print above the fireplace and a Chagall lithograph over the grand piano...
Experts disagree over whether forced busing will ultimately lead to better race relations or harden attitudes and breed a new generation of racists. After examining 120 studies, Sociologist Nancy St. John of the University of Massachusetts found no definitive answers but decided that desegregation worsened race relations in quite a few cases. James Deslonde, an education professor at Stanford University, drew similar conclusions from a study of 1,200 fourth-through eighth-graders in the integrated schools of San Mateo County, south of San Francisco. He reported that peer pressure prevented 35% of the students from forming friendships across racial...
...serious problem for any government trying to restrain inflation, and there are times when wage-price restraint must be enforced. But Galbraith-style permanent controls tend in the long run to suffocate economic life by distorting market forces, discouraging business investment and initiative, and creating shortages. They also breed worker resentment over lost wage boosts that translates into more social and political unrest than a popularly elected government can afford. On the one hand, Galbraith indicts government for unfailing economic mismanagement; on the other hand, he trusts government to save the day with wage-price controls. He thus seems...
Boom-Boom. War photographers appear to be a breed apart-which is probably a good thing. "I used to be a war-a-year man," says the London Sunday Times's Donald McCullin, "but now that's not enough. I need two a year." Associated Press Photographer Horst Faas, who plastered his office in Saigon with atrocity pictures the way some men hang pinups, admitted to a colleague, "Vot I like eez boom-boom. Oh, yes." To New York Herald Tribune Reporter Marguerite Higgins, covering earlier conflicts, combat was more overtly sexual. She would not marry, she told...