Word: janning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JAN S. IRVINE...
...exposé was based on the experience of South African Art Teacher Robert Harold Strachan, 39, who had served a three-year sentence for political conspiracy, and was so sickened by what he saw that he went to the Rand Daily Mail to tell all. Editor Laurence Gandar (TIME, Jan. 8), checked carefully, put Pogrund to work, then published Strachan's appalling story of filth and disease, of beatings and other tortures suffered mainly by blacks in South Africa's prisons...
...SOCIAL SECURITY. Some 20 million social-security recipients would get increases of at least 7% in retirement pensions, retroactive to last Jan. 1. Minimum monthly payments would go up $4 to $44, maximum payments $8.90 to $135.90. Eventually the maximum benefit would reach $168. Other changes: to cover their college years, some 40,000 children of deceased, retired or disabled workers would receive social-security benefits up to the age of 22 instead of 18; some 355,000 people aged 72 or over who are not now covered by social security would be given benefits...
Broadway theater owners, meanwhile, were solacing themselves with good news from Washington. Starting Jan. 1, 1966, the 10% tax on tickets (in effect since 1917) will be repealed. Further, prices will shed their straitjackets. Hit shows will be able to charge what the freight will bear, perhaps as much as $25 a ticket. Flexibility will also mean that for lagging shows, box-office prices can be dropped to rock bottom overnight...
...Decided, at least for the time being, a dispute between a federal court and the Illinois Supreme Court. Last Jan uary, the federal court reapportioned state senate districts; if its orders were not followed, it said, all state senators would have to run at large in 1966 (as did all representatives in 1964). Two weeks later, the State Supreme Court, while agreeing that the present appor tionment was unconstitutional, asserted its own jurisdiction, gave the senate until this July 1 to realign itself. The federal court refused to yield jurisdiction. But the Supreme Court ordered the federal court to step...