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This feminine capacity to dispel male anger (also observed in studies of aides in mental wards) may be due to the value system of male criminals: assaults on male authority figures are ranked high. Policemen are often attacked "because it is heroic," says Ronald G. Talney of the Multnomah County, Ore., sheriff's department. But policewomen might avoid such assaults simply because "it is cowardly to attack a woman, even though she is a police officer." Actual incidents seem to support Talney's view: a child-beating suspect who had twice resisted arrest surrendered peacefully when Private Mary...
Since Williams is not a member of the Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Association, today's match will not affect Harvard's EITA record of two wins and two losses, but it could extend the Crimson's winning streak to three and completely dispel any gloom remaining after the team's first weekend, when it lost to both Columbia and Princeton...
...Some scenes, like the self-mutilation in the Sundance, a sacred Indian ritual which Cody used for entertainment in his Wild West Show, have a deep visceral impact. Scott's Indians despite its inherent flaws is an inventive, well-directed, moving evening of theater which should help dispel the image of the American Indian as a cigar store ornament...
...against the giant ITT Corp. in return for up to $400,000 in backing to bring the Republican National Convention to San Diego (TIME, March 13). As the second week of tense testimony unfolded, Republican officials were still on the defensive. The Administration had requested the hearings, hoping to dispel quickly any whiff of a deal. Thus far it had failed, and gleeful Democrats were only too happy to prolong the agony in an election year...
...ACADEMICS in the Social Relations Department can do much to dispel the confusion they have helped to create by setting up specialized courses on women. Women such as Fjellman on the Faculty could teach these courses, perform research, and supervise students--could in short, create the body of scholarship necessary to flesh out the study of women and insure its place in the study of Social Relations...