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...carrot-and-stick approach (solitary confinement v. improved treatment) or aversion therapy (the child molester associates his predilection for youngsters with discomfort for himself), the various approaches draw on B.F. Skinner's positive-and negative-reinforcement precepts and are characterized by close and expert attention to even the smallest details of behavior. The programs are all the rage-and outrage- in U.S. penology today...
...porches a family sat as if for a portrait, children in parents' laps. But they all had bug-eyes twisted slightly toward the sides of their heads. They seemed unaware of this: The kids had thick glasses, and the smallest girl had light blue pixie glasses with sparkles in them. Behind the glasses her tremendous eyes seemed miles away.--Beside them in the duplex lived a lone man who watched television and gestured angrily at the government with the stump...
...Commerce Department announced that real growth for the economy as a whole slowed to 1.3% in 1973's fourth quarter. It was the smallest rise since late 1970 and a sign that a recession may well begin in the current quarter. William Simon, chief of the Federal Energy Office, said that he expects that the energy crisis could wipe out upwards of 1.8 million jobs. If so, that would add about two percentage points to the present 4.9% unemployment rate...
...meanwhile it is expanding production of subcompact Vegas by 40% in the 1974 model year. Chrysler Corp, is temporarily closing three of its big-car factories next month, and converting one from production of standard-size Plymouth Furys and Dodge Monacos to compact Valiants and Darts. American Motors, the smallest of the carmakers, has been prepared for the change all along: it has concentrated on production of little Hornets and Gremlins. AMC sales are running 27% ahead of last year, and executives say that only a shortage of parts prevents them from pushing sales gains still higher...
Nixon's smallest donation was $12, given on three occasions to the American Legion Auxiliary, once in 1970 and twice in 1971; his largest was $4,500 to the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in 1970. Many of the organizations that benefited from a Nixon gift were religious. Besides the Graham donation and a $1,000 donation to the Baptist Community Hospital in 1970, Nixon gave $1,000 to his home-town East Whittier Friends Church...