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...Reich lasted twelve years, the incarceration 20. That is merely first in a file of ironies. Forbidden to write a formal memoir, Speer scribbles on toilet paper, then smuggles out his work with the help of a Dutch guard who had once served as a forced laborer in a German factory. Speer's Russian captors-who alternate with more lenient Westerners-are as harsh and arbitrary as Reich Marshals. When he steals a cauliflower from the prison vegetable garden, Speer is caught and sentenced to a week of solitary confinement...
...fascinating to see how far the Chinese get by talking alone. Yet "struggling" is a pretty exhausting process mentally, if not physically. The victim sits surrounded by his fellow inmates, head bowed, as they hurl phrases like "Down with the obstinate prisoner" or "Confess or face the consequences." Sometimes forbidden words, "liar," "scum" or "son of a bitch" slip in--and the gang's abuse is too relentless for comedy. Even a strong-willed victim's only out is to pretend to confess sincerely, and the realization that he must acquiesce to struggling eventually makes him as complacent...
...final push for the new banking began in the late 1960s, when bankers discovered a way to diversify. They organized holding companies, each of which took over a bank and then launched into businesses that the bank itself was legally forbidden to enter: leasing of airplanes, trucks and vending machines, purchase of consumer-loan, management consulting and real-estate development companies. Meanwhile, bank representatives competed in scouring the country for customers. Says Rutgers University Professor Paul Nadler: "Everyone was on a drunken kick. Banking became a high-volume, low-markup business...
...department stores and other retail outlets to enable bank customers to pay for their purchases with personal checks that the merchant could quickly verify. Today Citibank has terminals in more than 2,500 retail outlets, 120 of them across the state line in New Jersey, where it is legally forbidden to open a branch (federal law forbids interstate branching). About 60 banks around the country have followed Citibank's lead and established similar systems...
Pornography is hard to find. Topless and bottomless dancing are strictly forbidden. Thus it came as an extraordinary shock when a county grand jury indicted Cincinnati Police Chief Carl V. Goodin, 42, the commander of the vice squad and six other cops last month for charges ranging from bribery and extortion to perjury. At the same time, Larry Flynt, paunchy publisher of the raunchy new skin magazine Hustler, was indicted on charges of bribery and sodomy. Last week the grand jury reconvened, and still more indictments are expected...