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...program over past three years certainly justify radical departure in the basic of dealing with delinquents. crucial point is that rehabilitation the individual delinquents is not direct objective of the program. aims are rather 1) research in the and behavior of delinquents order to reduce crime and 2) more portant, getting the youth to a regular activity in his life--a job. "These kids don't need recreational facilities as much as they need hard work," Slack claims. The boy is a paid and voluntary subject in a research project, not the patient of a court-appointed doctor. There...
Phenomenal Slice. Perhaps more im portant than the cut in expenditures is the budget's reduction in "new obligational authority," i.e., authority to make contracts (45% of the actual spending proposed in the 1955 budget will be from obligational authority granted in earlier years). The President asked for $56.3 billion of such authority, $4.4 billion less than the current year, $23.9 billion less than 1953's total and $35.1 billion below the Korean war peak in fiscal...
...early 305." What to do for a patient whose history shows that there is a danger of coronary attack? "The current accent on the avoidance of overexertion is some what misplaced, and in most cases, except those with severe heart-muscle damage, avoidance of emotional stress is more im portant." Or, as Dr. Cathcart put it for his professional audience: "A useful anticoagulant is peace of mind...
When informed of the investigation, Councillor Lynch said that he did not "know a damn thing about the group." But he added that he would do everything to prevent the investigation. "The im- portant thing now is to got the reds out of the city, that means even out of the city administration, where I know there are a lot of Communists, and, of course, out of Harvard...
Last week death came to Nobel Prize Winner Sir Austen Chamberlain's widow," the Lady of Locarno." Ivy Muriel, Lady Chamberlain, may be remembered longest because one day in Switzerland she gave what cables called "the world's most im portant picnic." This was at Locarno in 1925. Those tireless peace men, Aristide Briand and Austen Chamberlain, were trying to per suade the Republic of Germany to enter the League of Nations and make a final peace pact. The Republic had its finger in its mouth. Then Mrs. Austen Chamberlain, her husband's ablest helper, rose...