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...Hotel, The Fantasticks is presented with zest and with an understanding of what this kind of half-serious Little Mary Sunshine romance is about. Boy and girl are beset by their conniving fathers, who arrange for a cowboy, a tired Shakespearian actor, and an Indian to stage a "quality rape" of girl so that boy may save her and their marriage may be lasting. This results in immense confusion, but the evils of the world and the power of Love are established on the way to a happy ending. The Fantasticks keeps all this modern by making it sweet...
Even more unsettling than property losses, though, is violent crime, especially rape and armed robbery, which increased 50% in the past year. Some recent examples...
...Presidio stockade in San Francisco was disrupted last October. Linking arms and singing We Shall Overcome, 27 Army prisoners staged a sitdown protest. An hour later, they were hauled off to their cells, charged with mutiny - one of a baker's dozen of crimes ranging from murder to rape punishable by death under the Uniform Code of Military Justice...
...reputation." He offered a trade: "If the college will get rid of the beatniks, kooks and hippies over there, I'll shut down the houses." Police Chief Glen Means explained that prostitution was a "necessary evil." Because of it, he says, "there was not a single case of rape in Terre Haute last year. Oh, a few college girls hollered rape, but it really wasn't." Other citizens argued that the trollops kept the college boys contented: despite campus turmoil from coast to coast, Indiana State has had no serious student riots or disturbances...
...fastest-growing major crime in the U.S. is not murder, rape or mayhem. It is bank robbery, an increasing frustration for the nation's moneymen. The problem extends from Washington, D.C., where a bank 100 yards from the White House grounds was looted last December, to North Hollywood, Calif., where one bank was recently hit twice in the same day. Last year U.S. banks reported 1,840 robberies, four times the number in 1960. The average bank robber is a lone amateur in his mid-30s. He has an 86% chance of fleeing the bank, but the FBI says...