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Franklyn Alexander Evanston...
...core criminals. One study of repeat offenders in Washington, D.C., showed that 7% of the criminals arrested in a 4½-year period had been apprehended four times-and this 7% accounted for 24% of all the serious crimes considered solved in those years. In one startling example, in suburban Evanston, Ill., the arrest of one burglar cleared up 163 break-ins. Says Evanston Police Chief William McHugh: "Eighteen hundred burglaries doesn't mean we had 1,800 burglars." The fact that the repeaters are released to strike again and again says a lot about the nation's system of criminal...
...talk about 'change' a lot, but we try not to say the word 'evolution' very much. So we have a chapter on birds, and one on amphibians. But we don't say how they are connected." Observes Frank Spica, a biology teacher in Evanston, Ill.: "If you ask me, I think the creationists have won. They've not passed any legislation, but they've got the text books changed...
...trial were arrested in the Chicago suburb of Evanston,Ill., last April following the holdup of a car rental agency. Four months later in Cook County courtrooms, two were convicted of robbery and sentenced to 30 years, while the others received eight-year terms for conspiracy and weapons violations. Since some of them would have been eligible for parole in 1984, the Federal Government brought charges of its own, including seditious conspiracy and illegal use of weapons. In all, the feds linked the group to 28 bomb plots in the Chicago area...
When Opera Midwest burst onto the music scene two years ago with a glittering production of Verdi's La Traviata, the Evanston, Ill., company was regarded as something of a musical mystery. Its general manager and financial "angel," Stephen Griffeth, had been able to conjure up a first-season budget of $400,000, a stunning amount for a group of virtual unknowns. Its star soprano was Griffeth's wife, Myra Cordell, a Northwestern University voice graduate. The music director was a former security guard who had conducted a children's choir in West Germany. Even Griffeth...