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STRATFORD, Conn--"There is no man in America whose words will carry farther around the earth." So wrote Archibald MacLeish, winner of three Pulitzer Prizes, about Thornton Wilder, also a triple Pulitzer recipient. Yet Wilder's position in letters remains perplexing, for he is, at 78, something of a homeless and neglected...
Bert Parks Greenwich, Conn...
...institution that is rigorously trying the free-choice approach is the so-called Just Community in Niantic, Conn. Parole is granted only after a pre-determined sentence is served, and there is no connection between getting out and participating in the educational and other-special rehabilitative programs that are offered. The main effort is to get the prisoners?both men and women?to participate in running the prison and to learn to be responsible for their own action. All decisions are left up to the majority, with guards and prisoners entitled to one vote each. "They're the ones...
Although cities have the highest rates of crime, the rate of increase is now actually greater in the suburbs (up 20% last year) and in rural areas (up 21%). In Milford, Conn., once a peaceful small city on Long Island Sound, assaults were up 303% and burglaries 78% in 1974 over 1973, and the figures are still climbing. The main culprits there are gangs of white, middle-class youths; they have so terrorized some residents that they do not report thefts and beatings for fear of reprisals...
Earl Bouchet West Haven, Conn...