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Back to Abnormal. Authority collapses in the persons of the warden and the chaplain; there is nothing left but the tainted and ambiguous influence of the psychologist, who must bargain for peace and the lives of the guards. Before the insurrection is over, one man has been tortured and two...
Happily, the prison has never had any trouble with the gamblers. For one thing, only card games are permitted, and only cons with records of good behavior can be appointed dealers. They "buy" a table for 75 cents a week, split the take with the prison, which uses its share...
Beyond Stalemate. By this time, most Cabinet members had been filled in on the steps that led to the Eisenhower exchange of visits. The story: Back in June, when the Geneva conference on Berlin recessed for three weeks, Secretary of State Herter decided that there was little real prospect of...
Hostages to Burn. At guard-change time one afternoon last week, Myles and Smart directed half a dozen other hard cons in a fast grab of two guards, armed with .30-cal. rifles. Young Smart coldly shot Deputy Warden Theodore Rothe dead. Other ringleaders captured Warden Powell, used the telephone...
Late the second night Warden Powell heard over his ever-working prison grapevine that Myles had decided to burn the hostages. He acted quickly, led a 50-guardsmen bazooka, machine-gun and rifle attack. The first bazooka "V-O-O-R-O-O-M" so shook the cons that they...