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...fence buys their "swag" (stolen goods) for a fraction of its value and unloads it swiftly at slightly below wholesale to respectable folks eager for a bargain. Though he is the underworld's most visible agent, the fence has generally escaped the scrutiny of journalists, cameras and sociologists. Until recently, that is. In The Professional Fence (Free Press; $8.95), Sociologist Carl B. Klockars offers the latest word on the ancient practice of selling filched goods by introducing the reader to a true-life fence whom he has playfully named Vincent Swaggi. Klockars analyzes Swaggi's business methods, personnel...
...Western states, where vestigial distrust of Big Government and its powers to manipulate paper money remains strongest. Yet it is far from certain that the U.S. will become a nation of goldbugs, sinking lifesavings into 24-carat bars and furtively stuffing them under the floor boards. Says Harvard University Sociologist Lee Rainwater: "Americans tend to be optimistic about the future, and when you believe things will turn out well eventually, you're not that interested in hoarding gold...
...American Sociologist Daniel Bell was outraged. So were West German Novelist Heinrich Boll, France's former Culture Minister Andre Malraux and British Poet-Critic Stephen Spender. An indignant committee of Nobel laureates called upon U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim to complain. Novelist Saul Bellow was so angry that he exploded at an international P.E.N. congress in Jerusalem last week: "They are stupid, ignorant, partisan. And I think they are a lot of swine...
...example, only 25% of South Boston High's graduating students went on to college. That compared unfavorably with the record of the all-black Jeremiah E. Burke High School in Roxbury, which sent nearly half its graduates into higher education. Harvard Sociologist Thomas Pettigrew quotes local folk wisdom: "If you want to go to college, you don't go to South Boston High; and if you go to South Boston High, you don't want to go to college...
...notion, many Europeans believed that it would mean the dismantling of the Common Market, with Britain and Italy cast adrift. "One can say that the main reason Italy is still democratic and not fascistic is that it is tied to the rest of Europe," says Rome University Sociologist Franco Ferrarotti. "If Italy is cut loose, it will truly become a disaster." Brandt's proposal, adds an American diplomat, would mean "the breakup of the Community on the installment plan...