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...Atlanta last week must have sounded strange, even as election-year hyperbole. Any victim of criminal violence was more likely to be moved by the question Senator George McGovern posed to a campaign crowd in New York. "I want to ask you," said the Democratic candidate, "do you feel safer after four years of Richard Nixon? Mr. Nixon and his Administration are [trying to] mask a record of astounding failure in the field of crime behind a veil of law-and-order rhetoric, which grows more strident as the muggings and murders and rapes in our cities continue to rise...
...wish to take personal exception to the inference made by your correspondent Peter Range. I have made my home on St. Croix for the past eleven years, and in spite of the recent tragedy, I still love my home and feel 1,000% safer here than I ever could in any major city on the U.S. mainland...
...says, "is that Nixon and his Government treat us as chattels, as if this country were their own special province and they lead us to do what is right for them. We are spending $80 billion a year on defense, and frankly I don't feel any safer." The specifics of McGovern's proposals don't concern Koffler. "I've learned not to pay attention to campaign oratory," he explains. "My feeling is only that McGovern is to be trusted. To me, McGovern represents the good, solid, wholesome America around which our traditions were built. Rather than putting billions into...
...soft-drink industry raised productivity by 5.1% annually, partly by switching to nonreturnable bottles, which threaten to bury U.S. cities under mounds of trash. On the other hand, coal-mining productivity dropped last year, largely because companies have had to devote many man-hours to making miners' lives safer and more comfortable and to lessening environmental damage...
...fundamental principle to be kept in mind in selecting premed courses as a fresh man is it is always safer to enroll in easier courses as a freshman and then move up to the more difficult ones as a sophomore and beyond (note this is contrary to the advice given by most science departments). Perhaps the most important single factor determining whether a freshman goes on to be "premed" or drops the idea is his performance in premedical courses as a freshman. All too often students enter their sophomore years with poor grades in two or three difficult...