Word: bill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North Carolina courageously put young felons into an open prison camp staffed entirely by group-therapy veterans-recently paroled California convicts. It worked, until the legislature nervously stopped the money. (The head parolee later became a professional penologist.) Several states profitably rely on Author Bill Sands (My Shadow Ran Fast), a reformed California armed robber, whose Seven Step Foundation sends ex-convicts into prisons to counsel inmates and runs "freedom houses" to help re-leasees. Of 5,000 Seventh Step graduates so far, only 10% have returned to prison. An ex-New York prisoner named Hiawatha Burris has carved...
This grim Beverly Hills hyperbole is the characteristic verbal coin of a man who is the quintessence of movie-industry cynicism and success. Bill Dozier, 60, started in Hollywood in 1935 as an agent for Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis, and has since been a top production executive at several movie studios and the executive producer of several TV programs, including You Are There, Studio One and Batman. Such is his reputation for plain talk that one-fifth of the registrants in his Monday-night course are not U.C.L.A. undergraduates but Hollywood directors, producers and pressagents...
...Judiciary Committee is presently considering an "omnibus bill," prepared by the Special Commission on Mental Health, which would make this state one of the most progressive in mental health reform...
McClung was an excellent college basketball player, however, and on the night of February 7, 1964, he was a better basketball player than Bill Bradley...
...first Friday of the new term. There were mixers at two Houses, Phil Ochs was in town, and there was a big hockey game across the river. But Bill Bradley was at the IAB, and 1600 people--the largest basketball crowd in two decades--jammed into the place to watch him tear the Crimson apart. To say the least, they were surprised...