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...VERNON FORD, 24, has not altered his goals much either. A basketball player and leader of black students at Northwestern, he aimed to use his education as a lever to help blacks. While teaching and counseling at an experimental "free" school for high school dropouts in his old neighborhood, Chicago's West Side, he earned an M.A. in sociology at Northwestern. But he soon decided that teaching and sociology by themselves did not help kids expelled from school because "they didn't have the power to holler" or kids who got into trouble with the law for being out late...
What has two eyes, perches on 22-ft. poles, can see half a mile in nearly total darkness, throws fear into lawbreakers and costs $47,000? The answer, known to everyone in suburban Mount Vernon, N.Y., is an ingenious new television system that untiringly watches over the town's main shopping street, relaying what it sees to police headquarters...
...patrol cameras, which last month went into operation for a one-year test period, may have already reduced crime in Mount Vernon. During the first three weeks after their installation, there were no known crimes committed along the street, compared with four during the same period last year. The cameras are on duty 24 hours a day, remote-controlled by a patrolman at police headquarters, several blocks away...
Most observers continue to feel that reining in man's aggressiveness is as important as spurring his intelligence. Harvard Neurosurgeon Vernon Mark advocates a nongenetic approach. "There are basic brain mechanisms that will stop violent behavior, and we are born with them," Mark asserts. To tap those mechanisms, scientists would like to develop an anti-aggression pill (estrogens, or female hormones, have already been used experimentally to inhibit aggressive behavior). Until they do, Mark and two Harvard colleagues?Psychiatrist Frank Ervin and Surgeon William Sweet?are fighting aggression by using surgery to destroy the damaged brain cells that sometimes cause...
...Members of the New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution will be in Cambridge on Sunday [ March 14, Sever 1, 2 p. m. ] to explain their opposition to the Vernon power plant. Hearings on the Vernon power station should begin late this month...