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...squad cars really cut the crime rate? Newly named FBI Director Clarence Kelley decided to test the long-accepted axiom last year when he was chief of police in Kansas City, Mo. Kelley selected three urban areas that had similar crime and population patterns. In one, all cruising squad car patrols were eliminated; the second was covered by five cars, just as it had been before the experiment; the third area was flooded with 15 cars. The year-long experiment, which ended in October, indicates that patrol cars have no significant effect on crime. In each of the three neighborhoods...
...Administration, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Radcliffe will provide the estimated $30,000 needed for the year-long project, Robert E. Kaufmann '62, assistant to the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for Financial Affairs, said last week...
...Nieman line-up indicates, participants bring radically varying backgrounds to the program and use Harvard in individualized ways. Most Niemans concur, however, on the basic professional benefits derived from the year-long experience. The year literally stops the presses of their professional lives and allows them to gain distance on a world which they confront daily at close-range...
...night Tolbert slept in the slums of Monrovia and announced next day a program of "mats to mattresses" aimed at giving every Liberian a proper bed. As a means of developing the backward and neglected interior, he called for a year-long "national rally" to raise $10 million in development funds before his 60th birthday next month. The goal was utterly unrealistic; by last week the campaign had collected less than $2,000,000, including $250,000 cajoled from the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., the country's largest employer. But Tolbert defends his fund raising as a symbolic success...
...reform centers concentrate on research and act as back-up agencies for the legal aid officers, which directly serve poor clients. These smaller agencies are still being regularly funded by the OEO with year-long grants...