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...indignant inquiry into man's inhumanity to man. A Sign for Cain aims at filling the gap. It tamps aphorism, anecdote and erudition into stinging whiffs of grapeshot that splay across the whole range of contemporary thought and life. Wertham's thesis is that no murder, no rape, no senseless act of destruction is ever an iso lated, spontaneous event even when it is the product of a clearly psychotic mind. Always it "is linked by a thousand threads to the present fabric of our social and institutional life...
...towers rape the low skyline of cities that have evolved over centuries, who cares? They make such great tourist attractions that a commission of Hamburgers seriously suggested that their tower, now under construction, be designed with a built-in lean to woo tourist dollars away from Pisa. It won't, but there's a consolation: in addition to doing the things that other TV towers do-transmitting radio and TV signals and conventional phone calls-it will buzz any motorist equipped with a simple and inexpensive receiver, signaling him to go to a telephone and call his office...
...clubhouse Loser dies of shock while puffing pot. As the fuzz move in, the choppers move out for Loser's funeral in a chapel draped with Nazi banners. The-rite soon turns into a riot, during which the stompers stomp the preacher, wreck the chapel, and gang rape the dead man's grieving girl friend...
...week's end New Orleans authorities had located the rape victim and one of the key witnesses in the case. Louisiana Attorney General Jim Gremillion denounced the Court of Appeals decision as "horrible" and added: "It looks like the court wants to give them [Labat and Poret] a medal for staying in prison." Gremillion will appeal for a rehearing; if that fails, he will go to the U.S. Supreme Court...
Sociologists are further disturbed by the FBI's "index crimes" - murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny and auto theft, which are usually lumped together in determining whether U.S. crime is rising. The index is misleading, charges Professor Robison, because "less serious crimes account for approximately 85% of the total arrests." Critics of the statistics also question FBI indications that murder is rampant in the streets. In the fine print, the 1964 FBI report itself noted that 80% of U.S. murders are committed indoors by the victim's friends or relatives...