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Among Gideon-released prisoners, the rate of recidivism (return to crimes) was only 13.6%, as compared with 25.4% among other Florida prisoners released when their sentences expired normally. Hindsight suggests a possible reason: those who applied for release under the Gideon ruling ranked surprisingly higher in mental and physical health than the rest of Florida's prison population. As an ironic result, Gideon's adverse effect has been not on society but on the prison system itself. The exodus has created a shortage of inmates at Florida's 36 road-gang camps, forcing officials...
...first and foremost in the domestic compact market, almost became king of the road. Just to meet the demand and get the car into customers' hands, A.M.C. President George Romney-now Governor of Michigan-permitted archaic and costly work practices to continue. A.M.C. executives now complain, with hindsight, that Romney paid lavish dividends to stockholders and perhaps too conscientiously used earnings to take the company completely out of debt. Antiquated multilevel plants in Kenosha, Wis., and Milwaukee were not replaced...
...hindsight, some British executives of Ford also blame themselves for the situation. In 15 years Dagenham grew twelve times larger than its prewar size, but British management failed to keep up. When Ford of Detroit took control, it was faced with falling profits, a hopelessly hidebound pyramidal management and an inadequate pool of promising young British executives. To correct the situation, Ford rushed over some of its own bright young men, just as it had done without difficulty at the German Ford plant in Cologne. Some of the Americans are at Dagenham temporarily, will be sent on to other countries...
...hindsight, use of the B-52s had been an expensive means of hunting guerrillas, and the scheme's only real merit may well have been psychological. Hanoi could hardly fail to notice how quickly and easily SAC's huge squadrons had been brought into the Viet Nam battle. The B-52s would, of course, be enormously effective if turned onto the cities or factories of the north. But the jungle strike also served to prove once again that the war in South Viet Nam can be won only by foot soldiers, closely supported by tactical air strikes...
None but the Brave. As producer, director and star of this World War II melodrama, Frank Sinatra is triply committed to a piece of flip moral hindsight. War is archaic, he says. It is also rough on brotherhood. But he cannot conceal his boyish enthusiasm for any activity that brings together a swell bunch of guys...