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There are other quirks as well. For decades, the FBI has used a $50 minimum in defining larcenies that make up an important part of its crime index. Obviously, the shrinking value of the dollar changes the meaning of those figures; partly as a result, larceny has been the fastest-growing category on the crime index recently. Another example: for as long as anyone has kept track, youths from the mid-teens to early 20s have committed the largest number of offenses in all categories. During the '60s, the post-World War II baby crop came of criminal...
...offenses. J. Edgar Hoover's statistics placed last year 7% ahead of 1966 in rapes, 9% in aggravated assaults, 11% in murders and 28% in robberies. Two out of every 100 Americans, said the FBI, fell prey to a major felony. This chilling statistic is misleading as an index for the nation as a whole, since most crime is concentrated in the limited demographic area of the city ghetto...
...June and July, the cost of living made its steepest two-month climb in eleven years. Going up by one-half of 1% each month, the consumer price index reached 121.5 (using the figure of 100 for the base period 1957-59). On that scale, the average family now pays $12.15 for the same items that cost...
...Mississippi native and himself a graduate of Ole Miss Law School, Morse returned, luring five Yale law grads down to join his faculty. Other out-of-staters also came to teach. One more index of change was that last year there were no fewer than 15 Negroes in the student body...
...delegates. "They're nice people," said one big-city Northern Senator, "but they've just never ridden a subway." The comment was not altogether fair. It is such people who work long and hard for their political parties; affluence, or the lack of it, is not necessarily an index of social conscience. Still, the contrast between the people in the Convention Hall and the nation's grubbier problems could not be ignored...