Word: alcatraz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TIME'S report on crime [June 30] reminded me of the day a number of years ago when I went over to Alcatraz prison to visit my client Mickey Cohen. I asked Warden Johnson what program he had for rehabilitating these toughest of all convicts. He replied: "We don't rehabilitate; we just warehouse...
...primeval peace is reguarly broken now by the roar of a silver Porsche gunning out of the camp gate onto Big Moose Road, heading for the Food Town market or the Laundromat two miles away. These are 20th century Indians, fired by the militancy that prompted the occupations of Alcatraz in 1969 and Wounded Knee in 1973. They ride in cars toward their encounters with the white man. Their warriors are lawyers, who fight with manifestoes and 200-year-old treaties. But their aim is to return to the old ways. To do that they demand their ancestral lands...
...Pucker/Safrai Gallery, 171 Newbury St.. Paintings by Dan Rosenbluth '75 pottery by the staff of the Radcliffe Pottery Studio at Ticknor Library, Boylston Hall, through Dec. 20 And, finally, "Wish you Were Here" a history of the Picture Postcard (In my hometown, stores used to sell postcards of Alcatraz with that choice phrase in yellow script on the front) at the Institute of Contemporary Art, 955 Boylston St. in Boston, through Jan.4...
...with messages of encouragement from President Ford, 61, and California's Governor Reagan, 63, Jack celebrated his 60th birthday by swimming 1½ miles across San Francisco Bay from Alcatraz to Fisherman's Wharf-handcuffed, his feet chained together, and towing a rowboat filled with 1,000 lbs. of sand. After 80 minutes of diving through the bay like a clumsy dolphin, Jack landed at the Wharf, blue with cold. Rushed to a nearby sauna for defrosting, he emerged to the cheers of fans and promptly fell to the ground, only to do ten brisk pushups. Then...
Divorced. Aristotle ("Telly") Savalas, 51, mean-looking, smooth-skulled film actor (Birdman of Alcatraz, The Dirty Dozen) and television star (Kojak, the Polish sleuth), and Marilynn Savalas, 34; after 13 years of marriage, two daughters; in Santa Monica, Calif...