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...McHOLLAND Lewisburg...
...petition calls Scales' conviction "unique in American history" and characterizes his sentence as "grossly excessive." It points out that Scales quit the Communist party in 1957, more than four years before he entered Lewisburg Penitentiary last October...
Hoodlum Frank Costello came when he was called last week, began paying the four years and 1½ months he still owes on an income tax rap. Before catching his free bus to the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., "The Prime Minister" told reporters he would be "put in solitary for 30 days, but I'm not really bitter." Rolling across the Jersey Meadows, he might well have recalled a favorite axiom learned during his East Harlem youth: "Tough times make monkeys eat red peppers...
...Lewisburg...
Died. Wilhelm Reich, 60, once-famed psychoanalyst, associate and follower of Sigmund Freud, founder of the Wilhelm Reich Foundation, lately better known for unorthodox sex and energy theories; of a heart attack; in Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, Pa., where he was serving a two-year term for distributing his invention, the "orgone energy accumulator" (in violation of the Food and Drug Act), a telephone-booth-size device which supposedly gathered energy from the atmosphere, could cure, while the patient sat inside, common colds, cancer and impotence...