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Something is not quite right even at the state's cushiest "correctional facilities" (bureaucratese for prisons), some of which could pass for prep schools. At no-walls Tehachapi, near Bakersfield, inmates can keep pianos in their unbarred rooms, get weekend passes and join their wives at "motels" on the lush green premises. Yet Tehachapi is full of repeaters, prison-dependent men who soon violate their paroles and return...
...Carpeting is one of the cushiest innovations in new school design. Since Peter Pan elementary school in Andrews, Texas, was carpeted in 1956, some 500 schools have joined the growing trend...
...absolute control of the world's new diamonds lies in a dull, grey building at No. 8 Charterhouse Street, London, offices of Diamond Corp. and its subsidiary, Diamond Trading Co. There, on an upper floor, the lords of Britain's cushiest monopoly linger over luncheons washed down with fine hock, occasionally notify their approved customers (and them only) that their application for a "sight" (buying visit) has been approved. "Sights" are no occasions for unbending. Customers look over parcels of stones, good and bad, take all or none, and take them at Diamond Corp.'s price. Widespread...