Word: caps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...panics and quits on the spot," says Officer Byers. The younger guards, on the other hand, contend that each shift captain makes up his own rules for running the cell blocks. Prisoners seem baffled by the inconsistency. One convict was thrown into solitary for wearing a knit cap and tennis shoes; others have been handcuffed to their beds for little apparent reason. Says John Palladini, a discharged New Mexico convict who has served time in four federal prisons: "New Mexico is worse than any place, since the harassment is irrational. There's no consistency. There's only vindictiveness...
...with his initiative hi developing new fields in locales from Louisiana to Saudi Arabia, once ranked him with independent Oil Tycoons J. Paul Getty and H.L. Hunt; of a heart ailment; in Houston. An unpretentious man who never had a chauffeur (but who occasionally donned a chauffeur's cap to drive his wife around in a limousine), "Big John" at times was estimated to be worth more than $200 million, but in 1970 filed two bankruptcy petitions. Out of that period of reorganization emerged a Houston-based oil firm, John W. Mecom Co., with Mecom as chairman...
Fifteen minutes later, the Crimson unleashed a three-punch combination: Carrillo lofted a shot into the goal's upper left reaches, Landry blasted a grounder back the reach of a diving Burrell, and Carrillo shipped a rainbow over the head of the beleaguered goalie to cap the first half scoring...
...just about ten days ago, Cap Weinberger '38 turned the tables on us at The Crimson and produced many a chuckle. We called to ask the former president of 14 Plympton St. for a comment on the Army-Harvard football game, being that he has ties to both schools and isn't that ironic and all that. Well, Cap, through one of his secretaries, mind you, told us that "as Secretary of Defense he doesn't have time to follow the details of college sports." Quite a card, that Cap...
...kind of lucky we live in a country where the little people can talk to the big people every now and then even in the halls of power. And don't be too quick to whine about government taking itself too seriously. It was always Cap Weinberger who used to break 'em up around the Crimson by saying, "Whaddaya think this is, The New York Times...