Word: maxed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impasse probably won't be resolved for some time. The guards have one code of ethics, and the inmates live by another. The men in the max end have a strict code of behavior, and it does not include informing on other prisoners. The prison environment naturally pits inmates against guards, and an informer is, quite simply, a traitor...
...more than those few carrots to help rehabilitate a prisoner. Because the inmates are supposed to strive towards the minimum security programs, the prison offers no programs in the maximum end, where the toughest cases start out. There are, for example, no drug programs; self-confessed addicts in the max end have to go through withdrawal without support, so it isn't surprising that there's heavy drug traffic in Walpole. No skills are taught, except in a program designed, staffed and funded by the American Friends Service Committee in collaboration with the inmates themselves. Inmates are alone in their...
...Dayan's orders, the luncheon was closed to the press. Some reporters tried to listen through cracks in the door, but they were quickly ushered away. TIME'S Chicago bureau chief Benjamin Cate managed to slip into the Blue Max Room's projection booth, from which he heard most of Dayan's 20-minute pep rally before being spotted by an Israeli security man and shooed away. Cate reported that the Dayan behind closed doors was much more the hard-nosed warrior than the cautious diplomat. His message was clear and tough, and he had some...
...bonkers. Where else can you find out that Auerbach, coaching on the high school level in the early '40s, cut a kid named Bowie Kuhn because he was completely uncoordinated. Did you know that the Basketball Association of America's leading scorer in 1947-48 was none other than Max Zaslofsky of the Chicago Stags? Quick, who did Red coach between the Washington Caps and the Celtics. That's right, the Tri-Cities (as in Davenport, Rock Island, and Moline) Blackhawks...
...heavy drinking. He died in 1933, we are told, feeling as though he had not reached his full potential: "When he saw what he had created, he felt cheated; his talent was too limited and so was what it produced," Yardley says. Lardner, despite the encouragement of Fitzgerald and Max Perkins, an editor at Scribner's, never wrote a full-length novel. When he died of tuberculosis at the age of 48, his work had petered out and he was writing purely to make enough money to support his family...