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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...N.R.A. points out that autos kill three times as many Americans as guns each year, and asks archly: "Why not ban them?" (One reply: Autos are registered. Why not guns?) N.R.A. officials also cite a study made by University of Pennsylvania Sociologist Marvin E. Wolfgang of 588 criminal homicides committed in Philadelphia over a four-year period. He concluded that, given "sufficient motivation or provocation," it makes no difference whether a gun is handy?if not, the offender "would use a knife to stab or fists to beat his victim to death." But Wolfgang has since modified that view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE GUN UNDER FIRE | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

Ford denies this--mostly. He can and does quickly cite Paul Doty's special committee on the future of General Education at Harvard, whose report three years ago surprised many people, and led to extended Faculty debate and alterations--unlike the usual Faculty rubber stamp of committee recommendations...

Author: By Glenn A. Padnick, | Title: If in Doubt, Create a Faculty Committee | 6/13/1968 | See Source »

...presidents intent on "imposing their personal stamp on the entire college." The aim of trustees was generally to promote a special interest-a religion, a social class, a vocation or locality. As a result, they "intervened in college affairs far more disastrously than is usual today." Riesman and Jencks cite a number of stu dent rebellions during the 19th century, which they compare to "peasant revolts against tyranny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: The Power of Professors | 5/24/1968 | See Source »

...while the second is like her using the library's call system, having the book delivered up to the reading room. In the first possibility, the actual users of the genetic information, the ribosomes, or protein-synthesizing particles, may carry messenger RNA from the nucleus to the cytoplasm, the cite of protein synthesis. Second, there may exist a distinct kind of particle which binds the RNA messenger, protects it, and possibly even stores it in the cytoplasm till it is needed. The existence of these hypothetical particles, which are called "informosomes," or information-carriers, was first postulated by Russian scientists...

Author: By Jeffrey D. Blum, | Title: RNA Quest May Unlock Cell's Street | 5/24/1968 | See Source »

...crowd in St. Peter's Square that "the church has great need, quantitatively and qualitatively, of brothers and sisters who will give their lives for the kingdom of God." The Pope's plea came two days after four curial cardinals held a rare press conference to cite statistics showing how severe is the shortage of priests in the church. "Why conceal the fact," said Gabriel Cardinal Garrone, head of the Congregation for Catholic Education, "that our concern is keen and profound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: Help Wanted | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

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