Word: personal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CHICAGO, FOR FOREIGNERS and others who have never ventured near the heartland, is Crime City. It has always been. The image was born of such fugures as Al Capone and Leopold and Loeb; it lives on in the person of one John Wayne Gacy. Newspapers thrive on images--especially the sensationalistic kind that can dislocate even a City of the Big Shoulders like Chicago. So when Gacy catapulted past Elmer Wayne Henley, Dean Corll and Juan Corona last month to become the most prolific accused mass murderer in modern history, the story was a big one for Chicago, the biggest...
...individual property, no advanced education, little or no religion, and none of the freedoms accepted or at least professed by most of the rest of the world." One Cambodian admitted to Dudman that he had seen some "travelers" who looked wealthy and that he had recognized a "rich person" working in the rice fields...
...were women; in the leading universities, the figure was only 1%. Still, a growing number of female stars are today rising over the campuses. One of them, Marina Whitman, 43, economics professor at the University of Pittsburgh, broke new ground by becoming the first female member of the three-person CEA in the Nixon Administration. A specialist in global economics, Whitman says wryly of her CEA appointment: "There was a kind of debutante quality about it." One of the vexing problems that she encountered in Washington was that women and men very often were separated after dinner. Eventually, she stopped...
...treatment, however, was simply empathy. Says Davidson: "They seemed to need to hear initially that they are normal, adjusted individuals who were put into a completely abnormal situation." Adds Gentry Harris, a San Francisco psychiatrist who has worked extensively with disaster witnesses: "It's important to let the person know he's not some kind of screwball. He's still within the human family. We just need to make people recognize that they do have limitations...
Goldwater, he said, "is the kind of person you could appeal to on a reasonably rational basis on SALT, but the likelihood of now getting Goldwater ro support SALT...