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...Awaiting trial in federal district court in New York, former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans read an article in TIME'S Law section about the innovative techniques developed by Psychologist Richard Christie and Sociologist Jay Schulman for selecting un prejudiced juries. Although their major successes involved cases brought by the Nixon Administration against such radicals as the Gainesville Eight and the Harrisburg Seven, Stans instructed his lawyers to get in touch with Christie, who expressed interest. However, his promise to pick a fair but not necessarily winning jury failed to impress Stans' codefendant, former Attorney General John Mitchell...
...York Rabbi Balfour Brickner explains: "People are desperately looking for something to cling to when all other models and molds have been shattered." Still others seek relief in the occult. "Magic and the occult can explain the unanswerable and give the person a sense of control," says Drexel Institute Sociologist Barbara Hornum...
...failure of the nation's leaders to demonstrate that they are in control of the various crises causes some political scientists to draw an analogy with the early 1930s. "We've got a deep sense of inadequate leadership," says Harvard Political Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset, "so once again it is a ripe time for a charismatic leader." It seems doubtful, however, that America will turn to a demagogue for salvation. Men on horseback have never done well in the U.S., and there is nobody tall in the saddle in sight...
Many others who have seen the film experience nightmares, hysteria and an undefined, but nevertheless profound apprehension. "It is dangerous for people with weak ego control," explains Dr. Vladimir Piskacek, a Manhattan sociologist and psychiatrist, "but it would not cause psychosis." Small children may suffer from hallucinations after seeing The Exorcist, but Dr. Piskacek doubts that the film would permanently impair even an immature mind...
Leading the team are Sociologist Jay Schulman and his principal aide, Psychologist Richard Christie, who have run up a short but impressive trial record. Consultants in three previous trials of radical defendants (the Harrisburg Seven, the Camden 28, the Gainesville Eight), the jury-selection specialists have helped pick 34 jurors who voted for acquittal. Their two misses were the jurors who held out for conviction and forced a hung jury in Harrisburg...