Word: celling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still aflame with mad little mutinies, wizened Nazi War Criminal Rudolf Hess, 67, was entertaining himself in his cell in Berlin's dreary Spandau Prison* by wheedling cigarettes from his warders. "They know it's forbidden to give the prisoners cigarettes," explained one guard last week, "but whenever a new bunch comes on duty, they figure he's just a harmless old man, so they hand a few through the bars." Then, after his last puff, the onetime Deputy Führer summons a senior warder for a look at the verboten butts, "reveling in the knowledge...
...glass cage might have been a minor court bureaucrat during the first eight weeks of his trial. As witness after witness rose to recount the Nazi crimes against the Jews, the green-backed files and notebooks in the cage grew higher and higher. At night in his cell, Eichmann pored over his files until his eyes watered with weariness. Last week, when he took the stand for the first time in his own defense, Eichmann was ready to the point of bursting...
...white men who have made careers of getting into trouble for causes: New York's James Peck, 46, who spent three years in prison as a conscientious objector during World War II, and Connecticut's Architect-Painter Albert Bigelow, 55, who got tossed into a Honolulu cell after he and three shipmates set out in 1958 in the ketch Golden Rule, heading for Eniwetok atoll in an effort to halt scheduled U.S. nuclear tests...
...hackle-raising reel or so, the good guys are whiplashed, stomped on and strapped to chairs in a steamy cell of the impregnable Szarhaza prison. Their efforts to fight off insanity from mind-obliterating drugs are compellingly chronicled. Their subsequent prison break is skillful skulduggery, handled in the finest tradition of cinema suspense. Director Phil (Hell to Eternity) Karlson and Star-Producer Widmark have managed to take a script that is awash in cliches, plunge it into an authentic setting, surround it with sound historical and technical data, and photograph it with an admirable tightness and edgy excitement...
...land-based nuclear plants.) The curriculum is a fat-free diet of pure math, physics, chemistry, electronics, engineering and health physics (to guard against radiation) that goes on for seven 50-minute periods a day, plus an average of four hours of homework done in a tiny, distraction-free cell. Teachers are on duty for help around the clock, and Rickover himself often conducts a final oral exam...