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...fact, Italian courts often absolved the rapist if the girl agreed to marry him. In recent years the number of reported rapes has been on the decline-partly, experts theorize, as a result of increased sexual freedom among young people. But Rome has recently been shocked by a rash of vicious gang rapes like the one involving Claudia Caputi...
When Carlo Gambino died last October at 74, practically every cop, crook and crime reporter in the country wondered who would replace him as the new capo di tutti capi, the boss of all bosses -in other words, the Godfather. Last week, a rash of stories in the New York press-the Times, the Daily News and New York magazine-crowned a new Godfather: longtime Racketeer Carmine Galante...
Does violence beget violence? Can one lurid crime flashed instantly across TV screens and explored in the pages of newspapers and magazines inspire other crimes? Those were questions for policemen, psychiatrists and journalists to ponder last week as a rash of savagery -a kind of season of rage-erupted across the U.S. Items...
Says University of Southern California Psychiatrist Frederick Hacker: "The media claim to be holding a mirror up to society. But the recent rash of hostage crimes indicates that the media have actually been promoting criminal behavior." Crime reporting has become more pervasive, and viewers appear to like that. As Chicago Psychiatrist Marvin Ziporyn observes sadly: "All you need to do today to see violent crime is to turn on a switch." But he absolves the press-"It merely reflects what is happening on the streets"-and blames instead the growing assertiveness of the individual. "We are moving from a time...
...result has been a rash of new habits. Men have been surprised to learn that a shave normally consumes 2% gal. of water; they are no longer filling wash basins just to cut whiskers. Julie Graham, a San Rafael housewife with three children, uses a pail to catch the cool water her husband runs until he gets hot water for shaving. She carries it in a bucket to the kitchen to wash dishes. Then she collects the dishwater in another pail, as well as water from the clothes washer, and uses it to flush toilets. "I've spent...