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None of the five police departments could ignore the survey's soberest finding: most crimes are never reported. In more than half the New York crimes, the victims failed to notify the police. For every five crimes committed in Philadelphia, the survey found, only one was reported. The two most common reasons given for this silence were a belief that the case could not be solved for lack of proof, and a resigned feeling that the incident was not important enough to merit the attention of the police. The job before big-city police departments is plain enough...
...that when Wyeth's delicacy falters. But at his best, his images become hermetic, despite their apparent candor; a peavey or a hanging cornhusk seems to brim with undisclosed biography. When the elusiveness at the core of his imagination reacts with his virtuoso power of rendering the soberest nuance of light, texture and weight, Wyeth becomes a formidable artist...
...Louis, dressing up is still considered a bit of a lark and centers on occasions like the Veiled Prophet Ball, where above-elbow white gloves are de rigueur for wives and the soberest businessmen get wildly trigged out as bearded warriors...
...Congo something always seems to turn the soberest occasion into a joke...
...Soberest reaction came from Harold Stassen, who announced that a group of eight distinguished soldiers and experts has been called to assess the implications of the Russian gambit. The advisory group would also try to find an answer for Russia's expected demand that the West match their reductions. To that expected challenge, Dulles recently provided a short answer in the form of an anecdote: A fat man and a thin man agreed to go on a diet; the fat man got healthier, the thin man starved to death...