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With all that going on, chances are good that there is another Y. A. Tittle or Bart Starr somewhere down South this year. The pros already think they have spotted one: Florida's Steve Spurrier, one of the sharpest college passers in the U.S.-with 133 completions in 206 attempts for 1,530 yds. as of last week, although his Gators lost to Georgia 27-10. The son of a Presbyterian minister, Spurrier, a C student, is apparently ticketed to the National Football League's New York Giants, provided that they are willing to pay his price...
...which to judge the quality of its journalism-if they choose to write and if the paper chooses to publish their letters. Last week, with a remarkable display of willingness to let its critics speak, the New York Times printed a column-long letter containing one of the sharpest attacks to date of its coverage of the war in Viet Nam. The writer: Frederick E. Nolting Jr., 55, a U.S. diplomat for 17 years, former U.S. Ambassador to South Viet Nam, and now a Paris-based vice president of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. Excerpts from his letter...
Vorenberg's first and most important problem -- his "sharpest shock" -- has been simply the lack of accurate information about crime. He believes that in order to suggest constructive changes in the law, and in methods of law enforcement, the commission must analyze the nature and causes of crime--the volume and effects of different kinds of offenses, and the characteristics of victims and offenders...
...expected to grow old gracefully in the practice or teaching of corporation law, the confrontation with crime and what we do (and do not do) about it has been a series of shocks. The sharpest shock has been discovering the extent to which we lack even the most essential knowledge about crime and the degree to which we make do with untested assumptions, myths and oversimplifications. In my own work with the Commission and in an earlier assignment as Director of the Justice Department's new Office of Criminal Justice, I seem to have spent most of my time trying...
Welcome Sedation. In the rate-sensitive bond market, where tight money has pushed up the return to investors to a 40-year peak, prices jumped rapidly last week in the sharpest rally in years. Yields correspondingly fell. The return on face-value 41% U.S. Treasury long-term bonds, for example, dropped from 5.05% to 4.99% in one day, closed the week...