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...Sacramento was robbed of $3,700. Authorities say that the apparent leader of the holdup was a man described as resembling Bill Harris. The driver of the getaway car was a young woman. Going through the material found in the Harrises' apartment, the FBI turned up a scrap of paper that connected the group to the robbery of the Crocker National Bank branch in the Sacramento suburb of Carmichael on April 21. The ski-masked bandits-three men and a woman-stole $15,000. Before fleeing, they gunned down a woman customer for no apparent reason. One incriminating piece...
...interest in the public good. If the lower class does not care about the future, he writes, then it will be immune to the deterrent factors of crime control and will riot and steal simply because the self-interest of the culture dictates such actions. Banfield tells us to scrap plans to build better schools or houses, or allocate more welfare for the lower classes, because lower-class culture can't be changed by wasteful alterations in society or environments, no matter how large-scale. Possibly, one way we can change the effects of lower class culture, Banfield postulates...
...unlikely that some voters may be swayed in Wyman's direction. The newspaper has repeated New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thompson's analysis in an editorial saying that there is, "a clear distinction between a candidate (Wyman) who believes in the free enterprise system and one (Durkin) who would scrap that for nationalistic programs in a socialistic philosophy." Loeb (for Loeb dictates the Union Leader's editorial policy) also charges that Durkin is an advocate of socialized medicine, and an admirer of the Soviet Union...
...cloud after the Nazi-Soviet pact and Stalin's 1939 invasion of Finland, he rebounded to become one of London's social lions when Hitler attacked Russia in 1941. A superb p.r. man, Maisky donated the Soviet embassy's iron railing to Britain's wartime scrap drive and was once serenaded with the Internationale by British armament workers. Returning in 1943 to serve as Stalin's Deputy Foreign Minister, Maisky attended the Yalta and Potsdam conferences before finishing his career as an academic specialist in Far East history...
...vowed a court fight to get a fair return. As USRA'S offer stands now, the entire Penn Central system, with an estimated market worth of $7.4 billion, would be valued for the takeover at $471 million-or what it would sell for if it were turned into scrap...