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Promising songs were doled out according to Motown Chief Berry Gordy's private caste system; the Supremes, the Temptations, Marvin Gaye, and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles had first choice. Such low-priority groups as the Spinners, the Four Tops and the Pips received the leavings. "We wanted to do a gospel album long before Aretha," says Gladys, "and Berry saved the soft songs for Diana Ross." But in 1967 a catchy soul rocker, I Heard It Through the Grapevine, sailed onto the charts for the Pips. Two other singles had scored for them by the time their Motown...
Since then, Gladys and the Pips have sold $10 million worth of records. They have extended their repertory from soul and blues to Marvin Hamlisch and Burt Bacharach songs. Needless to say, Motown has unearthed several dozen old recordings-and the Pips have sued their former employer for $1.7 million in disputed royalties...
...most observers believe the process cannot be eliminated or even cut back significantly. Nationwide, 90% of serious crimes are now cleared by plea bargains. If the rate were cut even to 80%, the trial load would double, a devastating inundation. Says Chicago Judge Marvin Aspen resignedly: "Sometimes you have to rely on things which are antagonistic to the system just so the system won't fall apart...
...repeaters who have already been in jail at least once before. Many are on parole or probation. One man in Houston was arrested for thievery and released eleven times in 18 months without ever going to trial. The same is true for juvenile criminals. A study done by Marvin E. Wolfgang, a sociologist and law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, showed that 627 out of 10,000 youths in Philadelphia became chronic offenders. They were responsible for two-thirds of the violent acts and 52% of all offenses committed by the group over an eight-year period...
According to most sociologists, as freedom increases, so does crime. Says Marvin Wolfgang: "Historically and cross-culturally, the countries that have greater amounts of individual liberty and freedom have probably experienced a greater amount of social deviance. But that is one of the values we extol?freedom to be different." Neither China nor the U.S.S.R. releases crime statistics, but China's problem, for example, is apparently minimal, presumably because of heavy indoctrination and severe social controls. Although its crime rate is rising the Soviet Union seems to have far less cause for alarm than...