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...Paris Prison reminded Chicago Correspondent Sam Iker of being and into an ancient submarine: "A combination of heat and smell, stale air, kitchen aromas and perspiring bodies." Washington's Dean State found it easier to enter than to leave the Missouri State Penitentiary. "It takes a while to adjust to the fact that you're outside," he says."You breathe deeply, you think of the old homily,' There but for the grace of God go I,' and you wonder how in hell the men cooped up in their cages day after dreary day retain their sanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 18, 1971 | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

...game winning streak, speculation flourished that the Big Red was no longer a contender in college hockey. However, Kevin Petit's return from a knee injury seems to have steadied new coach Dick Bertrand's squad. Cornell also relies heavily on sophomores, who took a few games to adjust to varsity competition...

Author: By Bradford B. Kgpp, | Title: Skaters to Face Improved Cornell | 1/4/1971 | See Source »

...fate; he could scarcely change it. In the modern U.S., people think easily of changing their family, like their occupation or their home. The result is psychologically unsettling and yet this change ability has obviously become a part of American life and the family will have to adjust to it. Theologian Sam Keen (Apology for Wonder) suggests that one should boldly take the notion of the family as a center for mobility: "It should be thought of like a gypsy caravan. You have that point of stability in the caravan, but it is continually moving and each member...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The American Family: Future Uncertain | 12/28/1970 | See Source »

After 19 months of valiantly trying to adjust to Ford Motor's more freewheeling style of management, Knudsen was fired. This time Henry Ford split the job of president into three parts and gave lacocca only one of them, with the ponderous title of executive vice president of Ford Motor Co. and president of Ford North American Automotive Operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Patience Rewarded | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

...their income for rent. ???ast Wednesday's public hearing on rent increases was the first time that anyone representing the elderly spoke out on rent control. Catherine Handley of the Committee for the elderly approached the microphone after most everyone else had spoken. A young tenant jumped up to adjust the microphone for the short grey-haired lady in a prim blue pillbox hat. She didn't really say anything different from any of the other tenants and she wasn't backed up by the rest of the Committee for the Elderly chanting or carrying signs but she was perhaps...

Author: By Joyce Heard, | Title: WHO OWNS BOARDW ALK? Playing Monopoly With Rent Control | 12/18/1970 | See Source »

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