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...tape recorder, an empty store front, and about 20 tough local adolescents form the nucleus of a novel University experiment in human behavior. "Street Corner Research," a project headed by Charles W. Slack, assistant professor of Clinical Psychology, has taken over a closed store at the corner of Bow St. and Massachusetts Ave. to study the problem of juvenile delinquency...
Instead of the familiar doctor-patient relationship, Street Corner Research uses an experimenter-subject relationship that "gets information we couldn't possibly obtain by conventional methods." Adolescent subjects are paid for coming in and speaking with members of the experiment; there is no coercion or direct attempt to reform them...
...greatest interest is in the absolutely unreachable kids who would never volunteer for such experiments," Dr. Slack noted. The first five adolescents whom Street Corner Research investigated had previously refused to see social workers or psychiatrists appointed by a juvenile court...
...actively seek adolescents in the Boston area and persuade them to come for an interview. "The first time one comes, whether or not he is three hours late, we pay him immediately in cash for coming." The payment of the subjects gives the experiment its unique twist. Street Corner Research does not try directly to reform juvenile delinquents, but treats the adolescents as employees and not as hoodlums...
...Should everyone be immunized against lockjaw? Yes, answers Immunologist Dr. Geoffrey Edsall of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, in a report to the A.M.A.'s Council on Drugs. Only 25% of the population has been immunized, yet the tetanus bacillus is present in many open wounds; thus the disease is a clear threat (an average 325 deaths a year) to anyone. The tetanus immunization shot, says Dr. Edsall, is not only one of the safest toxoids known to man, it is also among the most effective: the U.S. Army's tetanus rate...