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Laura is the daughter of a lawyer and a magazine writer. When the Calhouns first moved into the wealthy Chicago suburb of Kenilworth, they were greeted by crank calls and a cross burned on their lawn. Since last June, Laura has been wearing her hair Afro. "My God, yes, black is beautiful," says Laura. "The psychological tragedy of this country is that people have not come to grips with blackness. The black woman has got to realize that black is beautiful...
...Arkansas' Tucker prison farm, "the Tucker telephone" was a fearsome means of communicating the superintendent's displeasure. It consisted of an old-fashioned crank-phone apparatus that was wired to the genitals and one of the big toes of recalcitrant prisoners. When the crank was spun, the recipient of the message was shocked nearly unconscious. James Bruton, the superintendent who designed and used that device, resigned in 1966 when state officials began a series of investigations of brutality in the Arkansas prisons (TIME, Feb. 9, 1968). Last week Bruton pleaded no contest to charges that he violated prisoners...
...blue-ribbon commission of legislators, Administration officials and experts is expected to open major hearings on the entire U.S. financial structure. All this constitutes a personal triumph for Patman, a self-styled "money nut," who had long been regarded by many critics as an ineffectual scold or a crank advocate of easy money for everybody. Today nobody laughs at Patman, least of all the bankers. "The time has come for me," says Patman in his misleadingly benign way, "and I'm going right...
...started to glide back home. Engineers had calculated that the engine would "windmill" during descent and thus turn the generator to supply power to lower the landing gear. "Well, it didn't happen that way," Halaby recalls. "There was no windmilling, no power and no gear, except by hand-crank. I began cranking fast on my way down. I got in the final twist, and the landing gear went down just as I was turning for the final approach to the runway...
Only-yesterday histories have special charm for the connoisseur who wants to collect early POLICE BRUTALITY pictures (see page 263). Or the crank who loves typographical errors-Charles Lindberg (page 23), P. G. Woodhouse (page 472), Charles Evens Hughes (page 503). The only-yesterday's narrator is a White Rabbit. Always he must hurry on. With more than 850 photographs and drawings, Phillips' documentary spews images at double-quick newsreel speed while spieling commentary at the tempo of a tobacco auctioneer...