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...even as the U.S. was pouring billions into social welfare programs, and systematically attacking discrimination, during the '60s and early '70s, violent crime was booming. Since 1960 the rate of robbery, murder and rape has almost tripled. Lately it has become fashionable to target the culprits, not the causes???simply to catch criminals and lock them...
...threads on bolts for two years," says one recruiter for a major chemical firm. Other businessmen agree that industry must invent challenging, decision-making jobs for its bright young recruits. "And we must give young executives time off to become involved in the church, politics and social causes???and back them," says William D. Eberle, board chairman of American Standard. Because of the economic slump, it may be easier to hire top ranking students today, Eberle notes, but he believes that companies must work hard to counter young people's antipathy toward business. "The problem is more widespread than
...preachers sagely nodded while Salem witches screamed and shriveled" ("Wall Reunion." TIME, July 9). Does "shriveled" mean some shrinkage or withering due to natural causes???or did a TIME writer, like those Puritan preachers, nod? In either case, because no modern delusion is more widespread or persistent among intelligent and otherwise well-informed persons than that concerning the manner in which the victims of the 17th Century Witchcraft Delusion perished, will you tell TIME readers exactly how many men and women, in all the American colonies, were ever burned for witchcraft? J. FRANK DAVIS...
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