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...mess is typified by New Orleans' Parish Prson, a putrid pen built in 1929 to hold 400 prisoners. It now contains 850?75% of them unsentenced. Money and guards are so short that violent inmates prey on the weak; many four-bunk cells hold seven inmates, mattresses smell of filth and toilets are clogged. Prisoners slap at cockroaches "so big you can almost ride them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Shame of the Prisons | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

...administrative ceiling of $166 a month on rents, the result was catastrophic. Hotel cases began to climb, and the length of stay stretched out. It is now an average 4½ months. Many fatherless families live in places like the Hamilton Hotel, where they huddle in one or two filth-encrusted rooms, some of the children dull-eyed and incoherent from illness, the adults too confused and helpless to ward off the misery or the rats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WELFARE: Hotels Without Hope | 1/4/1971 | See Source »

...takes more than an intelligent novelist to bring off what Gardner has attempted. That "good" exists in filth and inspired lunacy is a common enough idea; Agathon is a good personification of it. To prove that good can rise from its wreckage and triumph requires a breadth of vision and a moral force The Wreckage of Agathon lacks...

Author: By Richard Bowker, | Title: Books The Wreckage of Agathon | 12/11/1970 | See Source »

...watched. This fall, they put out an underground paper called the Mad Hatter. According to a local attorney, the school committee reacted to its four-letter words "as if they had come on the first copy of Das Kapital." The members banned the sheet from the school, calling it "filth" and "insanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Child Guerrillas? | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

...during the past two summers, Curby and his associates at Sias Laboratories in Brookline, Mass., discovered that auto exhaust and industrial fumes create a new atmospheric phenomenon-a layer of "dead sky" composed of tiny, concentrated particles. Unmoved by either wind or rain, the ever thickening mass of filth hovers over Boston-and presumably other cities. The stagnant cloud has a faint silver lining: while making Boston's rain heavier, it will divert major storms from the city. The researchers do not yet know the dead sky's effect on human health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Week's Watch | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

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