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...hospitals. His last cell at Vladimir, a fortress-like penitentiary, was shared by four men. It was excruciatingly small: Soviet prison regulations allow for only 27 sq. ft. of space per prisoner. There was so little room that Bukovsky spent most of his days sitting cross-legged on his bunk, reading. After the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. signed the Helsinki agreement last year, Bukovsky recalled bitterly, even journals from other Communist countries were taken from the prisoners, leaving them with only a few official Soviet newspapers and magazines to read...
...distinction. It all began with the none-too-uncommon catalyst: second semester freshman year, the last hourlies before exam period, a semester already marred by negligence and procrastination, and four really rough courses. Then to add wood to the fire we've got the snoring roommate on the upper bunk. Sure, amidst anxiety-ridden times and uncontrollable circumstances, we are all afflicted with the inability to fall asleep for awhile. Or even, on rate occasions, for an entire night. But for two full weeks...
...juniors at Harvard are living so well. Jay Henderson '78, a Winthrop House junior who had hoped to have a private bedroom by this year, is not pleased with having to share his sleeping quarters with a roommate. "I thought I was through with the days of bunk beds where you barely have enough space to breathe," he said yesterday...
...shades amused, is reminded of another self-portrait Sutton says he made. It was a plaster cast of his own head, cunningly painted and landscaped with cuttings from his hair. This marvel, sculptured surreptitiously in a Pennsylvania prison, was supposed to take Sutton's place in his cell bunk on the occasion of a jailbreak. But the cell block was searched and the extraordinary head found before Sutton could test its effect. The artist does not seem to have been unduly discouraged. He had, after all, astonished his audience...
Died. Jim Robinson, 86, primordial, gutsy jazz trombonist who recorded more than 100 albums, many of them with Trumpeter Bunk Johnson, starting and finishing his career on Bourbon Street; of cancer; in New Orleans...