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...vilest deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air," wrote Oscar Wilde. In the California prison system, for years one of the most violent in the U.S., something quite different has taken root: Transcendental Meditation. At Folsom Prison, a state-run storehouse for repeat offenders, more than 250 inmates over the past three years have stopped hating and hitting each other to sit quietly and think their mantras. Encouraged by Folsom's example, authorities at San Quentin ("the Q") and Deuel Vocational Institution have opened their doors to TM programs. The state parole board has asked...
...height of the two-year Western drought, youngsters skateboarded on the dry concrete bed of the Los Angeles River. Shasta Lake receded to less than one-fourth its normal size, stranding boats on the rocky bottom. Folsom Lake, usually 260 ft. deep, was a virtual mud flat. The normally roaring Stanislaus River near Sacramento turned into a trickle. Kent reservoir serving Marin County dropped by more than a third of its usual level. Warned Richard Felch of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration: "We've got a good chance of another dust bowl...
Boaters have returned to Shasta Lake, along with crowds of campers. Some 20,000 people spent Fourth of July weekend there; 40,000 were at Folsom Lake. Says William Dillinger of the state department of parks and recreation: "Nobody is crying for customers any more. Last year people were hiking on the mud flats along the lakes. This year they are swimming...
...AUBURN-FOLSOM PROJECT. The fight over the $1 billion scheme on California's American River provides a case study in the realities of water politics. Governor Jerry Brown, an ardent environmentalist, had campaigned for office as an opponent of new dams, but the severe drought, which has forced some of his Northern California constituents to haul water by the bucket, has changed Brown's mind. When Carter put Auburn-Folsom on his list, Brown came out in favor of the project, which is designed to irrigate 29,000 acres and provide supplemental water to 387,000 more. Brown...
Died. Marion B. Folsom, 82, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Eisenhower Administration; in Rochester. As an executive of Eastman Kodak during the 1920s, he was a leading proponent of corporate unemployment and pension plans; the programs he established at Kodak and other Rochester firms became models for the nation. During the Depression, Folsom helped frame federal unemployment programs and the Social Security system, acknowledging that private resources were no longer adequate. His HEW tenure (1955-58) was marked by a greatly expanded budget for programs such as federal aid for school construction...