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...impact is indicated by a recent national survey of attitudes toward the Calley case. According to Harvard Psychologist Herbert Kelman, many Americans regard Lieut. Calley's behavior at My Lai as normal. That suggests, Kelman concludes, that an alarmingly large segment of the population might be willing to employ extreme violence if ordered...
...fill a shortage of math and science teachers, the German state of Hamburg hit on a novel solution: it advertised in the U.S., where colleges turn out more teachers than the schools can employ (TIME, Aug. 9). Lured by promises that a knowledge of German was "preferred but not necessary" and that the work would involve college-level classes, some 500 Americans applied for jobs paying up to $850 a month. Hamburg officials signed 71 of them to two-year contracts...
...true that subject matter does change the contours of inquiry, but such differences stem rather from the nature of the phenomenon than from the suseptibility of the subject to scientific method or clear interpretation. But objective inquiry must employ Ralph Ellison's admonition to the Social Sciences: "Watch out, Jack, there're people living under here...
...Burbidges joined the University of Chicago. Because of old nepotism rules, the university could not officially employ two members of the same family. "The irony of such rules," says Mrs. Burbidge, who had to settle for an unsalaried appointment while her husband was named a fully paid associate professor, "is that they are always used against the wife...
Women fare much better in such positions as publicity directors, rights and permissions executives. As a whole, New York's bigger and more prestigious publishers employ roughly one woman editor for every two men, including editors of juvenile-book programs, who are usually women. A considerable number of the top trade-book editors are women, and their salaries appear to be more or less equal to their male competitors...