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...under indeterminate sentencing is difficult to establish. Clearly, though, the potential for abuse is there, as it is whenever men are granted access to total control over others. According to many observers, that potential is being realized. Among those who feel that the absolute power is being abused is Ramsey Clark. Clark, a supporter of the indeterminate sentence in theory, says that the abuse occurs because, "No correctional system in the United States is yet staffed to make effective use of the indeterminate sentence...
During his last presidential campaign, Richard Nixon denounced "the wave of crime" that he said was sweeping the country. What was needed, he said, was "leadership that will place this problem as the first priority of American business." The Republican nominee characterized Attorney General Ramsey Clark as "soft on crime" and a "coddler of criminals." A new man at the Department of Justice, Nixon proclaimed, was needed "if we are to restore order and respect for law in this country." Republicans everywhere blamed the permissiveness of Democratic Administrations for rising crime rates...
Died. James Ramsey Ullman, 63, author-adventurer; of cancer; in Boston. The Manhattan-born son of a bookie, Ullman became "more familiar with Tibet than with Times Square." After a brief career in the theater, he headed for the Andes in 1936, returned the next year to write The Other Side of the Mountain. Among Ullman's later works was the bestselling 1945 novel The White Tower...
...idea of an undergraduate science center has been around Harvard for several decades. In the late 1950s, the Ramsey Committee, set up by Dean Bundy, recommended that the building be constructed. The Faculty looked at the idea in the early 1960s, until 1968 when an anonymous donor gave $13.5 million to build an undergraduate science center. The Corporation then commissioned as architects Sert, Jackson and Assoc. -the same firm that designed Peabody Terrace and Holyoke Center-to draw up plans. Meanwhile, another $4 million was raised. The plans came up for final approval in April...
This task force, including two members of the original Ramsey Commission which first recommended the Science Center, began by considering financial problems and cost data for opening and running the Center. Its scope has now been broadened to include recommending any conceivable use for the Center, ranging from going ahead with the original plans to not using the building...