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...simply compiles data volunteered by police departments, many of which report crimes in different ways, including not reporting crimes in order to soothe the public. Although the FBI now collects statistics from 8,500 law- enforcement agencies representing about 94% of the U.S. population, Columbia University Sociologist Sophia Robison charges that the final FBI summaries are "not worth the paper they're writ...
Sociologists are further disturbed by the FBI's "index crimes" - murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny and auto theft, which are usually lumped together in determining whether U.S. crime is rising. The index is misleading, charges Professor Robison, because "less serious crimes account for approximately 85% of the total arrests." Critics of the statistics also question FBI indications that murder is rampant in the streets. In the fine print, the 1964 FBI report itself noted that 80% of U.S. murders are committed indoors by the victim's friends or relatives...
...ALAN ROBISON Nashville, Tenn...
...further discrediting evidence, the defense introduced a paperback book found on Daniels' body, Meyer Levin's The Fanatic. And as a clincher, Defense Attorney Vaughan Hill Robison waved the dead seminarian's maroon undershorts in the courtroom: they looked red and, he said, "smell of urine." The operator of the Cash Store, handsome, fortyish Mrs. Virginia Varner, was called; the defense brought out that there is a beauty shop in the back of the store and, as Robison put it, "The operators there are womenfolk just like yourself...
...soloists carried off the few solos in the oratorio excellently. The women, Junetta Jones and Janet Winburn, sopranos, and Betty Lou Austin, alto, had strong, vibrant voices. The men, all from the Glee Club, equalled them: Robert McKelvey, Clayne Robison, basses, made "The Lord is a Man of War" very convincing; Ivor Francis, tenor, was weak in his upper register, but contributed fluid recitatives and good airs. The orchestra was fine but not overly distinguished...