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...every three residents, while behind-the-times New York was stuck with one for nine. In 1979 Los Angeles drivers were racking up 200 million miles a day. In 1983 the total number of registered vehicles in Los Angeles County was 5,119,194. Motoring gamely along, an exhaust-pipe taste gathering about the teeth, one is self-conscious of erring in a world of gorgeously maintained 1965 Ford Mustang convertibles...
...condemn Olin King for using a plastic rod at his boys' school [NATION, June 11]? When properly used, the pipe has the power to deliver a child's soul from hell (Proverbs 23:13,14). Let us condemn the mothers and fathers in this modern American society who show that they hate their children by withholding discipline from them (Proverbs 13: 24) and treat their offspring like bastards (Hebrews...
Some had to march out to work in the fields every day, they say, lashed together. Recalcitrants were beaten with a 3-ft. length of plastic pipe called "the rod of correction." Serious infractions were to be punished by days in a new jail cell. It was tiny, only 24 sq. ft., but then so were its prospective inmates, boys from five to 17. The compound in Walterboro, S.C., is not a prison but a Dickensian boarding school called the New Bethany Baptist Church Home for Boys. Police raided the place last week. Said Prosecutor Randolph Murdaugh...
...treat a dog like they've treated us." Why were children beaten? King, a Fundamentalist, referred to Proverbs 22: 15: "Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him." He decided on his own that plastic pipe was what the Scripture intended. Michael, 11, did not see it that way. "They didn't have the true word of God there," he said. "It was all fake...
...same time, the situation comedy seems to have lost the central place it once held in the nation's cultural consciousness. In the early 1970s, a bracing dose of social realism was injected into a genre previously dominated by white picket fences, pipe-smoking fathers, mischievous genies and flying nuns. Sitcoms began to tackle controversial issues, from racial bigotry to abortion, and to portray, often with biting candor, the way contemporary adults interact with one another at home and in the workplace. Sitcoms kept people home nights, inspired fads and catch phrases and created stars...