Word: lumpkin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relaxed-looking individuals, most of them in their 20s, are serving time at the new Federal Youth Center in Pleasanton, Calif. They have been convicted of stealing cars, holding up banks, committing manslaughter, selling narcotics and other serious offenses. Despite appearances, says Warden Walter Lumpkin, "a prison is a prison." Still, some inmates call Pleasanton a prisoner's paradise. The most novel feature is that it is coed. Since it opened in July, the 40 women and 35 men "residents" (the term "prisoner" is passe) have been eating, working and playing together routinely. Sexual activity is banned. Anyone caught...
...challenges of scarcity and rocketing prices are bringing out old-fashioned ingenuity along with the complaints, evoking a pioneer atmosphere in which acquiring victuals is once again an important matter even for the affluent. Kirsten Lumpkin, the wife of a Seattle construction man, bought a side of beef in company with some neighbors and has been canning her own fruit. "It's unsettling," she said last week while preparing to make sauerkraut for the first time in her life. "All of a sudden, eating has become sort of a focal point, and I think that...
ROBERT C. LUMPKIN...
...ROBERT LUMPKIN...
...during the vigil. The fasters will take nothing but water for an "indefinite period," hoping to inspire a "new stage of resistance" among Americans. The 14 included familiar peace-movement veterans (David Dellinger, former Benedictine Monk Paul Mayer), younger recruits in their early 20s, and Roman Catholic Priest Tom Lumpkin of Detroit. Lumpkin carried the blessings of Detroit's two auxiliary bishops, Thomas Gumbleton and Walter Schoenherr, who promised their "prayers in this just cause." >For three years Anglicans and Lutherans have been holding international talks to bring about a closer mutual relationship. Now the two teams of representatives...