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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other Orange County staffers work outside the county. One reports news of interest to the county from the state capital at Sacramento; the other writes Orange County editorials from the Times's main office...
...prisons should exploit the ironic fact that mere aging is now the main cause of going straight. Since youths are the most defiant prisoners, they should be scattered among older, wiser men, not segregated as now. In a community setting, prisons can expand work-and-study furloughs, arrange part-time release programs with industry, universities and therapy groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous. At the federal penitentiary in Danbury, Conn., for example, Dictograph Products Inc. sponsors a training program for microsoldering hearing aids, hires the trained convicts after their release. Geared to problem solving, such treatment reconciles offenders with relatives, schools...
Neatly arrayed in graveyard rows, the 435 thin white crosses ranged down the sloping mall in front of Bascom Hall, the University of Wisconsin's main administration building. All through the rainy afternoon a cortege of mock mourners shuffled past. As they marched slowly up the hill, past a sign reading BASCOM MEMORIAL CEMETERY, CLASS OF 1968, the solemn students chanted: "Pray for the dead and the dead will pray for you; pray for the dead...
...Irving Florsheim, art appreciation has led herto both collecting and creating art herself. Her constructions are composed in the constructivist vernacular that she favors in her collection, which is rich in Vasarely, Albers, Calder and Gabo. For the past two years, she has held shows at Chicago's Main Street Galleries, has sold work to Collectors Mayer, Bergman and Connecticut's Joseph Hirshhorn...
Schweitzer's main concern nowadays is to complete the biggest change in the IMF's 24 years: creation of a new international money - paper gold - to take the pressure off dollars, pounds and real gold in bankrolling world trade and investment. It goes by the clumsy name of "Special Drawing Rights," or SDKs for short. Actually, SDKs would have some characteristics of currency and some of credit. They would consist of wholly artificial reserves, carried on the IMF's books as a separate fund and backed by pledges of contributions from IMF members in their own currencies...