Word: hermans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Oswald decided to talk to the prisoners in person. Although that tactic was later to be criticized, his personal courage could not be. While police sharpshooters kept watch from prison walls, Oswald and Herman Schwartz, a reform-minded attorney trusted by the convict leaders, walked into the midst of the rebels. The prisoners had created an extremely efficient paramilitary organization. The leaders had commandeered a megaphone, and they dictated a list of demands, which had been neatly typed by inmates seated at a long bench. The hostages were encircled and carefully guarded?both against escape and from any harm...
...save lives?hostages and inmates alike," he explained later. "We had to give the negotiations a chance." His first concession was to let into the compound a group of outsiders, chosen by the prisoners, to "oversee" the situation. They included New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker, Bronx Congressman Herman Badillo, Republican State Senator John R. Dunne and Clarence Jones, black publisher of Manhattan's Amsterdam News. But they also wanted Radical Lawyer William Kunstler and the Black Panthers' Bobby Seale. At one point there were as many as 30 mediators...
...convicts would be covered by minimum-wage laws for their work. Yet courts have consistently ruled that prisoners have no right at all to wages. Nor are they entitled to compensation for injuries on the job. "Prisons have been such a garbage can of society," says Buffalo Law Professor Herman Schwartz, "that they have been a garbage can of law as well...
...increasingly elaborate exchange of goods and services. Thus both England and Germany prosper even though they have a population density greater than that of India. And the Japanese are demonstrating that the world's most thickly inhabited nation may also become its richest. Looking ahead, Professional Prophet Herman Kahn optimistically foresees a world population that will double by 2000 but a world economy that will grow fivefold...
...reason for the great turnabout is a dawning realization that women who have money to spend want clothes that are comfortable and smart. Says Stan Herman, designer for Mr. Mort: "Business was so rotten last year that we began to look around for the answer -and the answer was to give the lady out in Middle America what she wants. It's a salable look." Manhattan Designer Bill Blass is even more emphatic. "I have just returned from Minneapolis," he reports, "a city I consider a good barometer of the mood of the country, and I found women hungry...