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Just as he would like us to believe, to understand Skinner is to understand his past history and reinforcement contingencies. Born in the railroad town of Susquehanna, pa., Fred Skinner was "taught to fear God, the police and what people will think." Skinner writes, "My mother was quick to take alarm if I showed any deviation from what was 'right'... I can easily recall the consternation in my family when in second grade I brought home a report card on which under 'Deportment,' the phrase 'Annoys others' had been checked. Many things which were not 'right' still haunt...
...discarded the shirt, perhaps given it to the Salvation Army, and that someone else had been wearing it in Leonia. Only when Kallinger's fingerprints, which were on file as a result of his arrest for child abuse, were found to match one at the scene of the Susquehanna Township robbery did Harrisburg police arrest Kallinger and charge him with one count of burglary, four counts of armed robbery and four counts of kidnaping. His son Michael, 13, and another son James, 11, were also taken into custody. After several hours, James was released, a move that seemed...
...Philadelphia suburb of Lindenwold, N.J., a man and boy forced their way into a home and tied a housewife to a bed. The man raped her; then the two invaders ransacked the house for jewelry and cash. There was a similar sex-and-robbery crime in early December in Susquehanna Township, Pa. There, a man and boy bound and assaulted four women, made ugly sexual threats and stole $20,000 worth of jewelry. A similar pair invaded homes in Baltimore on Dec. 10 and Dumont, N.J., on Jan. 6. Before Maria Fasching, no one had been killed, but there...
...York, Pa., acquitted James Howard of the mutilation-murder of another York man. Within hours the case against a co-defendant was discontinued for lack of evidence. Thus ended a proceeding that had caused a sensation in the old, placid factory town (pop. 50,335) just west of the Susquehanna...
...brown mud from the Susquehanna River has now dried to a white dust. It settles over everything and rims the eyes red. Only 10% of downtown Wilkes-Barre, once under 5 ft. of water, has reopened for business. Piles of debris still clutter the streets. Skulls and limbs washed from the Forty Fort Cemetery are still turning up in backyards. Block after block of houses have been gutted so that you can see from the front yard through to the back. Shrubbery has turned brown-gray; lawns are expanses of dried, cracked...