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...Eager Helpers. Kinsey's real laboratory is the whole U.S. He will go to any amount of trouble to collect case histories from a region, a cultural group, an occupational class or a religious sect which may not be adequately represented in his samples. Stray individuals figure less and less in his work. Kinsey commonly accepts an invitation to address (without fee) an organization such as a conference of Y.W.C.A. secretaries: After he has described the nature and purpose of his study, he calls for volunteers to sign up for interviews. He often gets a response as high...
Crushing Argument. Near Baxley, Ga., distributing handbills attacking a proposed law to curb cattle on highways, R. C. Carter changed his mind, became an active supporter of the measure after his car struck a stray bull and was smashed...
...lights, without water or trees or grass. There is only a huddle of huts and a dusty, sun-baked path ending in a square with a deep hole in its center, the community's only sanitary system. It is a place of shred-clothed beggars, gypsies, shrill urchins, stray dogs, pigs and piles of garbage. Whenever a new family arrives, the whole community turns to and helps build them a shack by night, when the police dare not interfere. When morning comes they have a "house," and can stay there as long as they want...
Liberation. In San Antonio, an anonymous couple broke into the city pound, chose two stray dogs as pets, set free more than 200 others, fled, evading pursuit...
...even though the number presently unsatisfied with tutorial is larger than had been hoped, the nature of their dissents is not sufficient reason to recommend that the departments make non-honors tutorial voluntary. Most of the criticisms from the dissenters mention practices that stray from the advice of the Bender and Blackmer reports. Where the blueprints have been followed, students are satisfied. A few changes in the procedure of the tutorial meetings can change much of the present criticism to praise...