Word: grand
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...rehabilitation. Experienced in mates know better. Understaffed and undersupervised, county jails often provide terror far more chilling than any thing to be found in a full-scale pen itentiary. Last week the everyday horrors of life in Chicago's Cook County Jail erupted into public view. A grand jury has been investigating, and the city's newspapers have started interviewing former inmates. The result is a stomach-turning catalogue of depravity...
Three separate private and official investigations turned up the facts that prompted the grand jury action. So far at least three possible murders have been uncovered. One convict was tied to his cot and burned to death behind the locked gate of his cell; another man was found hanged by his belt after he begged to be moved from his cell for fear of being killed; a third inmate was allegedly beaten to death. The stories of two former inmates, reported in the Chicago Sun-Times, suggested that murder was merely the end result of the constant brutality and venality...
Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox is not hardhearted - or incapable of the grand gesture. Last week he made the grandest gesture of his eleven-month gubernatorial career, turning loose a full 7% of the state's prison population -547 inmates who have three months or less yet to serve - for Christmas at home...
...country's richest land for colonization, thus doubling the total amount of national acreage under cultivation. Then Belaunde got the idea of extending the road beyond Peru, and persuaded Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay to join in. "We have lost the habit of thinking on a grand scale," he said, "of conceiving works that, like the Panama Canal, change the geography of a continent. Nature is our enemy, and nature can be overcome...
...architect himself: "He just doesn't know who he is. He's a funny guy who never knows how much things cost. He's suffering from the nineteenth century Jeffersonian thing--a guy with a book of friezes he's drawn on the Grand Tour. That's got to change...