Word: hardes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deer Lodge after political appointees had mismanaged their way into a riot in 1957 and a sit-down strike in 1958, able Warden Floyd E. Powell, 46, gave convicts a break. He put salt, pepper, mustard and catchup on the mess-hall tables, instituted TV-watching hours, worked hard to shape up the grim, turreted brick buildings built...
Hostages to Burn. At guard-change time one afternoon last week, Myles and Smart directed half a dozen other hard cons in a fast grab of two guards, armed with .30-cal. rifles. Young Smart coldly shot Deputy Warden Theodore Rothe dead. Other ringleaders captured Warden Powell, used the telephone to lure in other staffmen, slashed one guard who resisted, locked up five stoolpigeon convicts, whipped up some 30 other inmates (total: 435) and armed them with knives and meat axes. At nightfall the warden talked one convict into helping him escape, quickly called for an attack by National Guardsmen...
...compliment was the fact that Debré showed himself well-informed, quick on his feet and willing to listen to argument. To the infinite relief of his British listeners, Debré did not inflict on them the sweeping reflections on France's "grandeur" which they find so hard to take from De Gaulle. Above all he displayed, within the policy limits laid down by De Gaulle, considerable independence. "We kept looking for the string reaching back to Paris," said one British official. "Sometimes it was there. But sometimes it wasn...
...prices to drop 18? a barrel in February (complains Tariki: "We lost $34 million and weren't even consulted"). Last week a high-powered Venezuelan deputation at Cairo urged the Arabs to join in limiting production to stabilize prices. But as always when Arabs get together, agreement was hard to come by. The Iraqis, feuding with Nasser, were not even present. And Iran, remembering how increased production by Arab neighbors thwarted its plans, was unreceptive to Arab plans for a common front...
This decidedly unpeaceful form of coexistence began two months ago, after Iran signed a defense agreement with the U.S. and broke off negotiations with Russia (TIME, March 9). In a land where millions are illiterate and hard pressed, where autocratic rule suppresses opposition and corruption is widespread, and where the long-term benefits of invested oil royalties are insufficiently visible, Communist lies and half truths so powerfully spread were bound to have an unsettling effect. After holding a special closed session to discuss the Soviet offensive, 48 of Iran's 60 Senators trooped to the Shah's marble...