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...Democratic winner was Jerome Bob Traxler, 42, son of a rural mail carrier and a mod-coiffed extra vert who had a strong record as a populist in the Michigan legislature. Traxler dug into the issues of high taxes, the high cost of living, the power of the oil companies-all stands that got him the full backing of the unions. Most of all, Traxler struck at Watergate and Nixon. "We said all along that this election was a referendum on the President," Traxler later noted. "The man we had to beat was the man who lives...
...Without air-conditioning in warm waters near the Gulf Stream, cabins were as hot as the food was cold and, because the electric pumps and purifying systems were not working, there was no drinking or bathing water. But in the great rooms of the liner, it was like a mod version of Wellington's ball on the eve of Waterloo. Singers Judy Abbott and Glenn Weston chanted as indefatigably as blackbirds on a spring morn. Bands and discotheques rocked away with Elizabethan abandon. And many young couples were seen to be popping below quite early, leading one ancient mariner...
...heart of behavior mod lies in correct use of positive reinforcement, simply because this most closely approximates normal human behavior. Hundreds of parents of retarded and/or behavior-problem children have learned to use behavior mod to teach their children; many are grateful because it affords them a highly successful humanistic alternative to the degrading kinds of punishing methods they had earlier felt themselves reduced...
...obstacle to keeping the programs genuinely voluntary is the tendency of prison administrators to see behavior mod as primarily a tool for maintaining order behind the walls. In many cases, says Illinois Legal Aid Lawyer Michael Deutsch, "the prisons take the programs over from doctors because it's a way of segregating the troublemakers." Roy Gerard, an assistant director of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, says flatly: "That's part of the consequence of committing a crime. You've automatically volunteered for the certain way an institution...
...legislators and judges would produce effective guarantees of voluntariness and ban physical abuse and "excessive" psychological pressure to modify the behavior of nonvolunteers, then much of the controversy surrounding behavior mod might well dissipate. That would leave more energy for trying to turn promising programs into full-fledged successes. In Denver, for instance, 18 incorrigible delinquents inhabit the CAT house, more formally known as the Colorado Closed Adolescent Treatment Center. The kids run their own modification program, with adult guidance. It has worked astonishingly well inside the institution. But "our biggest problem is getting the kids out of here," says...