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...Research Institute Computer Specialist Donn B. Parker, who recently completed a study of 100 crimes involving computers, the potential for illicit gain from the machines is so vast that dishonest employees and even ambitious outsiders will increasingly be tempted to put their knowledge to unlawful use. A handful of keypunch crooks have already thought of some ingenious ways to defraud the Brain, with varying results. Some examples...
Several programs have had meager results. WIN (for Work INcentive). which trains welfare mothers for such jobs as clerk and keypunch operator, enrolls about 120,000 women a year, but 70% drop out before finishing the three-to six-month course, mostly because of physical or emotional problems, including drug addiction. The Job Corps, which houses youths in camps in order to take them out of a ghetto environment while providing training, has attracted only 21,000 to its 71 centers, which have a capacity of 25,000. Many youngsters prefer even slums to the barracks-like camps...
...have any apple thieves," says Vice Squad Detective James M. Harrigan. Judge Charles W. Halleck made a more practical observation several weeks ago. He ordered that one convicted suburbanite's $148 fine be used to pay rehabilitation expenses for a twice-convicted prostitute who needed tuition for a keypunch operator's course. Said Halleck: "If men find out that they will have to pay to send these ladies of the evening to school, they might quit going out there...
...during World War II, industry is compensating for the shortage of men by hiring women, including housewives who seek part-time jobs. Boston's John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. offers 25-hour work weeks within which keypunch operators can almost select their own hours. St. Alexius Hospital in the Chicago suburb of Elk Grove Village has set up a nursery where working mothers can leave preschool children during...
...Cold Beer. Janis followed this program for five years, working as a keypunch operator, singing occasionally, dropping in and out of three colleges, and drifting to New York and San Francisco. What did she get out of it all? Among other things, a longshoreman's vocabulary, a cheerful habit of drinking Southern Comfort by the bottle ("I may own that company some day"), and moods that she describes as "superhorrible downs." Then, after joining Big Brother two years ago, "I made feeling work for me through music...