Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opportunity-I do not consider it a great misfortune or a happy occurrence-of spending one term of 16 months at the Federal Correctional Institution at Danbury, Conn., and another of three years at the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta, permit me to clarify certain points of your Dec. 6 story on ... William Remington . . . The murder of Remington can be ascribed solely to the misadministration of the various correctional institutions and penitentiaries under the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. Beatings, sluggings and murder are the order of the day in Danbury, Lewisburg, Atlanta, Chillicothe, Alcatraz, and wherever the prison system...
...TIME, half of the editors had worked on a total of 45 major American dailies. The alumni roster includes such famous big-city papers as the New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Baltimore Sun, the Washington Post, the .Philadelphia Inquirer, the Atlanta Journal, the Los Angeles Examiner, the Seattle Times, the New York Journal oj Commerce, the Chicago Daily News, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Christian Science Monitor, the Cincinnati Enquirer, and the Houston Post...
...Atlanta...
Suddenly, across the noonday sky from west to east, swept a brilliant fireball. It left a long trail of white (some observers said black) smoke, and it flew so high that it was seen almost simultaneously in Greenville, Miss., Montgomery, Ala. and Atlanta. Over Sylacauga it exploded with a boom like thunder (some said a series of booms). A schoolboy in Montgomery, 50 miles away, insisted that the blast almost knocked him off his bicycle...
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING is starting off with a rush. Washington and Boston department stores reported record crowds, with some store sales last week-the traditional kickoff for Christmas buying-up 30% over last year. New York stores were packed; Atlanta's big Rich's department store had the greatest single-day volume in its 87-year history; and a record turnout of 800,000 shoppers jammed Chicago's Loop...