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Still, to earn desperately needed hard currency, the country's Communist bosses maintain an official guide service, Albtourist, which boasts of "incomparable Adriatic beaches" (all guarded by cruising police boats) and "centuries-old ruins." Business has been a little slack for Albtourist in the other satellite countries since Albania's quarrel with Khrushchev. Albtourist has even hopefully sent its tourist folders to a small West German travel agency in Cologne. TIME Correspondent Edward Behr decided to apply as a tourist. He had to wait six weeks for a visa, at last entered Albania on a once-a-week...
...director of Streetcorner Research was Ralph Sehwitzgebel, a former Harvard graduate student who made the study for a Doctor of Education degree. Schwitzgebel, who received the degree this June, took over the project after its founder, Charles W. Slack, left a position at Harvard for an assistant professorship of Clinical Psychology at the University of Alabama...
Streetcorner Research got its name from its first location: a store front at the corner of Bow Street and Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge. On the staff, in addition to Slack and Schwitzgebel, were Stanley Dubinsky, a social work student; David Kantor, a Harvard sociologist; and Father Jaun Cortes, a Jesuit priest and Clinical psychologist...
...success of Streetcorner Research in reducing juvenile crime by doing research on it has prompted Slack and Schwitzgebel to write a handbook called "Reducing Adolescent Crime in Your Community". The book tells how and where to set up a research laboratory, how to staff and finance it, how to get the boys to attend every day, how interviews are conducted with the tape recorder, ways to get the boys started on other activities--such as making sound recording equipment for the laboratory--and how to evaluate scientifically the influence of the laboratory in cutting crime...
...becomes close to his interviewer may want to have the same kind of job, an unrealistic goal if the interviewer is a psychologist," Dr. Slack has said. "But with a staff composed of people such as accountants, carpenters, but drivers, and housewives, the very people the boy has to live with are those who are helping him back into society...