Gambling Mark H. Haller, in Journal of Social Issues
(vol. 35. no. 3. 1979). P.O. Box 1248, Ann
Gambling-the word today conjures up images of the Las Vegas "strip," regulated racetrack betting operations, the numbers game, and the pervasive influence of ruthless mobsters. It wasn't always this way, writes Temple University historian Haller.
In 1900, Americans in a sporting mood had several choices. They could try their hands at cards or roulette at the usually illegal casinos found...
the early '50s.) Meanwhile West Indian blacks introduced the numbers game-another form of lottery-into New York City in the early '20s. 1930, West Indians such as Jose Enrique (Henry) Miro, "Big Joe" Ison, and Everett Watson had built powerful empires in the burgeoning ghettos of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Detroit.
Nothing hastened the spread of gambling as much as the telephone. By 1914, bookies such as Arnold Rothstein and Frank Erickson of New York had learned to elude police...
the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Wel- fare. But Petchesky asserts that many "health professionals" and family-planning advocates still encourage sterilization as a form of population control; their prime targets remain poor, uneducated women seeking protection from unwanted pregnancies.
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conflictsOf Interest? "Interlocking Directorates" Peter Dreier and Steven Weinberg, in Columbia Journalism Review (Nov.-Dec. 1979). 200 Alton PI., Marion, 0hi...
William Adams and Michael Joblove, in Was Bad News Policy Review (Winter 1980), 513 c st.
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Between 1975 and 1979, after their "liberation" communist leader Pol Pot, an estimated 3 million Cambodians died from starvation, from disease, or by execution. This great human tragedy long went virtually unreported on evening network TV newscasts, say Adams, professor of public administration at George Washington University, and Joblove, a Duke University law student.
Cambodia's...
Stephen White, in The New Statesman (Sept. 7, in Taganrog 1979), 10 Great Turnstile, London WCiV 7HJ, England.
More than half the Soviet population can now tune in Western radio broadcasts. An estimated 20 percent or more of Soviet city-dwellers regularly follow the BBC, Voice of America, and West Germany's Deutsche Welle. This access is putting a strain on the Soviet domestic propaganda apparatus, says White, a University of Glasgow Sovietologist.
A series of studies reported last May Pravda...
Stephen White, in The New Statesman (Sept. 7, in Taganrog 1979), 10 Great Turnstile, London WCiV 7HJ, England.
More than half the Soviet population can now tune in Western radio broadcasts. An estimated 20 percent or more of Soviet city-dwellers regularly follow the BBC, Voice of America, and West Germany's Deutsche Welle. This access is putting a strain on the Soviet domestic propaganda apparatus, says White, a University of Glasgow Sovietologist.
A series of studies reported last May Pravda...
the late '60s, however, advertisers had pulled out of the TV production business, except for soap operas and occasional specials. Two cost factors were responsible, explains Kiechel. First was the "seemingly inexorable rise" in the price of commercial air time, which discouraged the typical advertiser from betting all his dollars on one show. Second was the increase in the cost of producing programs. Ad- vertisers responded with "package buyingu-the practice of purchasing commercial...
a 3 to 2 margin. Blacks are more apt than whites to be evangelical. They make up roughly 10 percent of the population but 15 percent of the evangelicals.
While liberal Protestant denominations such as the United Presbyter- ian and United Methodist churches have been losing 75,000 to 100,000 members annually during the '70s, conservative evangelical churches like the Pentecostal and the Assembly of God are growing rapidly. Gal- lup suggests that with their large numbers of youthful adherents (13...
Mar- tin E. Martv. in The Journal of Relieion Tolerance (Oct. 1979),university of Chicago press,
5801 Ellis Ave., Chicago, 111. 60637.
If Americans take their religion seriously, how can they tolerate rival faiths? Tocqueville had a simple answer in the 19th century: American religious beliefs were either shallow or irrational.
Marty, a historian at the University of Chicago Divinity School, dis- agrees. In part, he says, tolerance stemmed from a tactical judgment made early American religious...
R. Jeffrey Smith, in Sci-ence (Dec. 14, 1979)- 1515 Massachusetts
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As the 1980s dawn, the U.S. space program is beset with problems. The space shuttle, the No. 1 project of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is currently behind schedule (15 months) and way over cost projections. Budget-cutters in Congress are complaining, the public is disenchanted, and the agency's staff is divided.
The space shuttle has been a big...