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That is not precisely true. Mrs. Jacobs found out about a girl whose tuberculosis had gone undiscovered in the hall for six months, and another whose broken arm had been improperly set. She found that it was a regular practice to lock children in cold, isolated cells for up to 48 hours as a disciplinary measure. She began to study her bureaucratic form charts, hounded the closed meetings of the juvenile justice commission. As she recalls: "They all sat around politely listening to explanations of practices that seemed insane to me." With her husband footing the bills, Mrs. Jacobs organized...
Worlds of Luxury. The slap hammer will work on any make of automobile. It is just one device employed by New York car thieves; another is the Curtis key punch, which costs about $150 and will fit in a shoe box. Using a code stamped on the lock tumblers of all American and most foreign cars, an operator can quickly make a "slave key" that will work in both door and ignition...
Oscar and his pals can work fast because of a simple device known in the trade as a "slap hammer." The gadget is essentially a thin steel rod with a movable weight attached to it; inserted into a lock, it can pull the lock tumbler out of a car door in seconds...
What Pound did do was cut, clipping off as many as 40 lines in a clump. His special target was a heavy-footed parody of Pope's Rape of the Lock. Though the couplets concern the ablutions of a fleshly lady named Fresca, they show Eliot at his most priggishly professional, and Pound briskly informed Eliot: "You cannot parody Pope unless you can write better verse than Pope...
...indeed running? The answer is complicated, depending upon 1) Kennedy's own psychology and decision to run some time in the next six to eight months; 2) whether a candidate, especially Edmund Muskie, can win enough of the primaries next spring to purchase a lock on the Democratic nomination; and 3) how vulnerable Richard Nixon looks from the perspective of the Democratic Convention in Miami Beach next July...