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...play on scraps of paper to kill time when he could not sleep; he would stretch out on his stomach on the floor of his cell after lights-out, sticking his hands through the bars to write by the corridor lighting. > Jerry Pulliam, 27, plays Jason, who kills a hood by stabbing him with an ice pick. It is grimly reminiscent of his own crime. "I killed an acquaintance with a knife," says Pulliam, now in his fourth year of a life sentence. "There are so many Jasons in here," says Pulliam, who finished high school in prison. > Thomas Abshire...
...purportedly dedicated to "bringing music directly to the people without having to go through the bureaucracy of the music industry. The romantic aspect is the most compelling attraction. People can't go fight in the Spanish civil war any more, and the day of the desperado, of Robin Hood, is over. So they strike out at the fat cats of the music companies this way. It's an existential romantic trip...
...combination of armor, air-mobile infantry, and air cavalry represents "a logical outgrowth of the great advances in Army mobility and the lessons learned in Southeast Asia," Army Chief of Staff, General William Westmoreland, intoned last week at Fort Hood, Texas. The occasion was the unveiling of the Army's first triple-capability (TRICAP) division, an experiment in relating the uses of the helicopter, as refined in Viet Nam, to the Army of the '70s and '80s. Should TRICAP prove out over the next three years, it will employ tanks for shock on the ground, Hueys...
...only the day before yesterday that Lancaster's ivory grin and simian grace made him a star? No, it was 1947, the year of Burt Force with Brute Lancaster. Or was it Brute Force with Burt Lancaster? Hood and hero, buccaneer and intellectual, Lancaster played them all, sometimes simultaneously. His characterizations were usually as delicate as his incisors, but in such films as Birdman of Alcatraz and Elmer Gantry he was restrained and acute...
...interested in your article on the new bags to keep premature babies warm [March 1] as I had a three-pound daughter born at eight months. There were no incubators, so a tiny bag was made for her from absorbent cotton covered with cheesecloth. It had an attached hood, something like a parka, and the bottom was closed. She wasn't bathed for six weeks, but was oiled daily by opening the bag. This was 40 years...