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Though it is impossible to know for sure, the discrepancy between the pro and con studies may result from the psychological health-or distress -of the couples before vasectomy. In the unsuccessful cases the marriages were immature to begin with, Family Service reports. Both husbands and wives were dependent personality types who chose sterilization because it was easy, sure to work, simple to obtain and required no continued effort or selfdiscipline. They looked to the operation as a magic cure-all for problems ranging from sexual inadequacy to financial insecurity. Inevitably, they were disappointed...
Does violence on television cause violence in American life? The question plagued the '60s with each outbreak of urban rioting, each numbing assassination. Thousands of articles and reams of congressional testimony pro and con have sought the answer...
Although Johnson obviously does not need to return to crime-his earnings are being held in a bank for him -he has been turned down for parole three times. But, like every other con, he figures he will make it at his next scheduled parole hearing in 1973. When he does get out, he plans a book on prison life...
NIXON'S LEADERSHIP. "I would list a kind of balance sheet on particular issues, both pro and con. I applaud his efforts to reduce tensions internationally, his new China policy and the Nixon Doctrine in the Far East. But a basic question is whether the country is coming to grips with the more essential problems we have at home. There is no sense of where the country is and where it is going. The basic catalyst for leadership is the President, and the failure of Nixon is in leadership...
...disposal of the California penal officials. They can punish the prisoner with whom they are dissatisfied or by whom they are threatened by sending him to San Quentin or Folsom, the maximum security joint. On the other hand, it is also in their power to reward a con by transferring him to Chino or one of the other minimum security prisons-without-walls located in the southern part of the state. Moreover, the authorities have a whole range of institutions in between and joints catering to special interests. A homosexual, for instance, who has played the game right, would...