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Writing in the current issue of the Criminal Law Bulletin, University of Mississippi Sociologist Columbus B. Hopper reports that only 10% of Parchman's 822 unmarried prisoners resent the husbands' privilege. Having studied the system since 1959, Hopper claims that Parchman's unique visits have kept marriages intact, bolstered prison morale and reduced homosexuality-all in sharp contrast to other prisons, where discontent and riots are often attributed to sexual tensions. Hopper adds that Parchman is hardly progressive in any other way; as a prison farm, it simply has more space for informality than conventional prisons with...
...penny-per-hundred-lbs. increase in grain rates allowed by the ICC; the decision left competing Midwest railroads little choice but to main tain their old rate. Similarly, the Southern Railway said that old rates will remain on the grain hauled in its 100-ton "Big John" hopper cars...
Mistaken for Grasses. Supported by an $80,000 grant from the U.S. Agriculture Department, which was concerned about the possibility that the disease might spread to the U.S., Harpaz finally identified the virus carrier as a tiny plant hopper named Delphacodes striatellus. The insect, he discovered, was not particularly fond of corn, preferring the sap of barley, wheat and oat plants during winter and wild grasses in the summer. But while moving from its winter-to summer-plant hosts, the plant hopper frequently plunged its stylet into young corn seedlings in the mistaken belief that they were wild grasses...
Spraying seedlings with chemicals to control the plant hopper would have been prohibitively costly. Instead, Harpaz turned to the virus itself. Further research revealed that it was extremely sensitive to heat, ceasing all reproductive activity within the plant hopper when the temperature reached 76°F. To Harpaz, this suggested a simple solution: instead of in early April, hybrid corn should not be sown in Israel until late May. Thus when the seedlings emerged early in June, he reasoned, the few viruses left in the plant hoppers' salivary glands would be too sluggish to infect the corn...
...drop, when to be at which pubs or discotheques, and how to attack in the ticket-buying, reservation-cadging, club-crashing wars. The author, a TIME contributing editor who also wrote the April 15, 1966, cover story on swinging London, organizes her advice to help a hurried city hopper utilize all his time and energies among the mods and minis and their elders, who have lately turned London into a new kind of resort capital...