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...hind him, he panics and quits on the spot," says Officer Byers. The younger guards, on the other hand, contend that each shift captain makes up his own rules for running the cell blocks. Prisoners seem baffled by the inconsistency. One convict was thrown into solitary for wearing a knit cap and tennis shoes; others have been handcuffed to their beds for little apparent reason. Says John Palladini, a discharged New Mexico convict who has served time in four federal prisons: "New Mexico is worse than any place, since the harassment is irrational. There's no consistency. There...
Sadat was an ambitious man, one of the first members of the lower class to go to military school, from which he graduated an officer. The army, a tight-knit and for the most part loyal group, became the center of his life, and his means for advancement. But advancement towards what? This is the dilemma that was to plague Sadat...
...presidential jeans were trim, the snakeskin boots glistened in the Sunday sun and the white knit tennis shirt clung flatteringly to Ronald Reagan's chest. As he chatted with a few friends and reporters on the White House's South Lawn, one newsman complimented him on his flat belly. Having a gym so handy in the White House really helped, said Reagan, adding with a proud grin, "Here, feel these triceps." The reporter gingerly tested Reagan's arm. The muscles were firm. Despite his chest wound and nearly nine months in the Oval Office, Reagan...
...explaining that the government set the bread or poverty line at 175 rands a month (one rand equals about $1.05), the driver said that Soweto's street cleaners earn 144 rands per month. The tour stopped at a factory for handicapped workers, where crippled and deformed men and women knit fishnet bags, clean foam, and weave tapestries on primitive looms. The chubby white director refused to divulge wages. "I never ask anybody what he makes, so I never discuss these matters," she snapped. One employee said he received 14 rands in July; another said he had been paid eight...
...white shirts. Employees posted THINK signs in their offices, and even jointly sang a company song, Hail to IBM* By paying high wages, promoting mainly from within and seldom laying off workers, IBM kept unions out of the company's manufacturing plants and fostered an atmosphere of close-knit camaraderie...