The Discovery of Gold in the Orange Free State and its Economic Effects

This represents the bulk of a joint lecture at the Royal EmpireSociety on the 25/A June under the chairmanship of the HighCommissioner jor the Union of South Africa. Besides his controlof De Beers, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer is the founder of the Anglo-AmericanCorporation, one of the leading Houses on the Rand.     

INLAND FROM THE EIGHTH ARMY: THE FIGHTING FRENCH IN THE LIBYAN HINTERLAND

Les Campagnes du Fezzan. Par le Capitaine Paul Moynet. No. 54,Publications of Fighting France, 4, Carlton Gardens, London,S.W.X. My Travel Through Chat. By Pierre Olivier Lapic. Croix de Guerre,M. C., Late Governor of Chad; translated by Leslie Bull. (JohnMurray. 10s.)     

INFLUENCE AND SELECTION PROCESSES IN WEAPON CARRYING DURING ADOLESCENCE: THE ROLES OF STATUS,AGGRESSION, AND VULNERABILITY*

The role of peers in weapon carrying (guns, knives, and other weapons) inside and outside the school was examined in this study. Data stem from a longitudinal study of a high-risk sample of male students (7th to 10th grade; N = 167) from predominantly Hispanic low-socio-economic-status schools in the United States. Longitudinal social-network models were used to test whether similarity in weapon carrying among friends results from peer influence or selection. From a goal-framing approach, we argue that weapon carrying might function as a status symbol in friendship networks and, consequently, be subject to peer influence. The findings indicate that weapon carrying is indeed a result of peer influence. The role of status effects was supported by findings that weapon carrying increased the number of friendship nominations received by peers and reduced the number of given nominations. In addition, peer-reported aggressiveness predicted weapon carrying 1 year later. These findings suggest that adolescent weapon carrying emerges from a complex interplay between the attraction of weapon carriers for affiliation, peer influence in friendship networks, and individual aggression.