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While this correlation between population and social ills seems logical enough, the facts to buttress it are far from conclusive. Ansley Coale, director of Princeton's Office of Population Research, noted that crime rates have climbed in Wyoming, South Dakota and West Virginia, though their populations have declined notably. Moreover. Coale continued, both London and Holland have remarkably low crime rates despite their dense populations...
Nonetheless, the West remains so eager for some sign of movement on Berlin that the tentative Soviet agreement was generally hailed as progress, especially in detente-minded West Germany. Chancellor Willy Brandt is particularly anxious for a settlement in Berlin to buttress his shaky coalition of Social Democrats and Free Democrats. Still, if the Russians want to heighten tensions in the city again, they got the perfect pretext at week's end. A rightist sniper, who left behind handbills charging that Brandt was abandoning West Berlin, seriously wounded a Soviet sentry guarding the Russian war memorial in the British...
...real "cynical maturity"? In a number called "Sons Of" (now that's got possibilities!) we are told "Sons of the great or sons unknown... sons of tycoons or sons of the farms... sons of the thief or sons of the saint... all were children like your own." And, to buttress that good-feeling that's slowly beginning to spread through your burnt-out heart, the whole production ends with an overly serious and rousing piece, "If We Only Have Love...
Such notions have been raised aloft by the feminist movement in the U.S. since its beginnings more than a century ago. Until this year, however, with the publication of a remarkable book called Sexual Politics, the movement had no coherent theory to buttress its intuitive passions, no ideologue to provide chapter and verse for its assault on patriarchy. Kate Millett, 35, a sometime sculptor and longtime brilliant misfit in a man's world, has filled the role through Sexual Politics. "Reading the book is like sitting with your testicles in a nutcracker," says George Stade, assistant professor of English...
Some specialists do not have enough money to buy all the stock that they must in order to keep the market orderly. In an effort to buttress the capital of the specialists, the Big Board within the past five years has forced them to merge into units-a minimum of three men each. These units have from $2,000,000 to $50 million of their own money to work with. They are also allowed to buy stock at 25% margin, compared with the 65% demanded of all other investors. Even those sizable funds may not be enough to cope with...