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...method is Nevada State Prison. Authorities invited Founder Charles E. Dederich. 49 (never a drug addict himself, but a graduate of A.A.), to set up Synanon's system in the cell blocks and maximum freedom honor camp at Peavine, northwest of Reno. The result has been an unexpected bonus. Not only is Synanon taking hold with 18 addicts, but because the same personality weaknesses that drive some people to narcotics are also present in many nonaddict prisoners, the Synanon program at Nevada now covers twice as many convicts with no addiction history...
Last week Carlson announced that his new company, Gift Stars, Inc., would do just that. With such prestigious companies as P. Lorillard, Kimberly-Clark, Minute Maid, Alcoa and Mennen already signed up for the new adventure, housewives in test areas will soon be finding a bonus of flashy blue and gold Gift Star certificates tucked into or onto everything from baby powder to potato chips. Cold sufferers who grapple for that first sheet of Kleenex, for example, will have to watch out for the coupon imprinted on the pull-out tab. Developed after a two-year study, the coupons will...
...have their own dormitories, faculties and particularly strong courses, which are open to students of any other college. All schools get indirect provincial and federal help in the form of grants based on enrollment. Otherwise, St. Michael's is financed from tuition, a Basilian Fathers subsidy, and the bonus of having many unpaid priests as teachers...
...Bonus. When the exchange was completed, Donovan, who had been exchanging quips with Castro for hours, mentioned casually that it was a shame that the African Pilot would return to Miami empty. Castro said he would fill it with 1,000 relatives of the prisoners, called it his "Christmas bonus." Some bonus. As it turned out, 922 were permitted to sail-but only after signing over all their property and possessions to Castro's Communist government...
...Bean's 115 workers also get an annual bonus, which last year amounted to 30% of wages...