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...Road Prison No. 32 in Florida's piney Panhandle region, Guard Arnie Oree Lovett doused the main lights in the barracks one night last week. All was quiet, and he settled down in his wire cage, which protruded into the building, allowing him to watch the twelve white and 39 Negro prisoners-some of them "close custody" convicts who must be guarded at all times. When one prisoner, following standard practice, asked permission to leave his bunk for the bathroom, Lovett thought nothing about it. The next moment a riot erupted-or in Dixie parlance, a "ruckus." Normally...
...smashed out the fluorescent lights. Others knocked the TV set to the floor and demolished it. Still others tore out plumbing fixtures. Following emergency plans, Lovett, 49, summoned another guard and gave him the key to an arms cabinet in the prison office. As he rushed back to his cage, Lovett saw one group of prisoners setting fire to a pile of newspapers and toilet paper that they had stacked under a bunk and another starting a blaze at the opposite end of the building. A large exhaust fan sucked the flames along the ceiling. In seconds, the one-story...
Prisoners screamed for Lovett to unlock the cage. The same key used to open the gun cabinet was the one needed to unlock the padlock at the barracks, and Lovett did not have it. While he watched, helpless, flames rolled across the ceiling, turning metal fixtures red hot. Some prisoners rushed to the showers to escape the heat-only to die from asphyxiation. Some huddled in corners, while others lay flat on the floor. Two or three minutes after the fire started, the other guard returned on the run and tossed the key to Lovett. By then Lovett...
...enables her to handle every thing in the standard repertory, but Cathy prefers to specialize in avant-garde music. Impressed by her ability to mix bel canto with barks, grunts, moans and sighs and to compete vocally with tape-recorded noises and electronic beeps, such experimental composers as John Cage, Sylvano Busotti and Luciano Berio (her estranged hus band) have helped make her the undisputed diva of the daring (TIME, Oct. 4, 1963) by creating pieces for her. Currently, she is fluttering far-out circles by doing something unusual even for her - singing Beatle songs...
...Cool Ones are fun-lovin' American kids who want nothing less than to make a billion dollars as rock-'n'-roll singers and become instant celebrities. Among them is Debbie Watson (TV's Tammy), a Go-Go bird in a gilded cage who busts loose and tries to make her way to the top of the charts. Should she decide that happiness is just a thing called dough? Or should she step down into the role of mousewife to her baritone boy friend (Gil Peterson)? Eventually, as is proper in this kind of Hollywood hokum...