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...bottom are covered thickly with rounded, blackish nodules that have grown as crusts around some nucleus, sometimes a shark's tooth. They are mostly iron and manganese oxides, but they often contain considerable amounts of copper, nickel and cobalt. "The amounts are absolutely staggering," says Dr. Henry Menard of Scripps. One 10-million-sq.-mi. area in the Pacific, he estimates, has nodules worth hundreds of thousands of dollars per square mile...
...Menard prison's eight-page, tabloid-size monthly newspaper is one of the best of some 200 publications produced by and for convicts. As a whole, they make for one of the more captivating aspects of the nation's press. They vary widely in style, from muddy mimeographs to a glossy, three-color quarterly, like the Atlantian at the U.S. penitentiary in Atlanta. Their circulation can be impressive: the biweekly press run of the San Quentin News is 10,000 copies, 1,481 of which go by mail to paid subscribers, including Actor Jack Palance and Society Columnist...
...instructions to show "mercy and kindliness" in print, "beware of seekers of free publicity," and avoid prison idiom, e.g., "isolation area" instead of "the hole." But the Angolite at the Louisiana State Penitentiary has published a cell-block correspondent's story griping about the chow. And the Menard Time recently printed a convict's poem to prison guards which began: "The screw stomps in on big flat feet...
Such rehabilitation is a major aim of the prison press-and most wardens are all for it. Says Menard's Warden Ross V. Randolph: "The prison publication is a morale builder, a source of enlightenment, and a medium to educate the public-on the fact that prisoners are people." For such a purpose, the wardens are inclined to suffer occasional lapses in ethical journalism-such as convicts who send messages to their lady friends outside under the guise of news items...
...Named not for TIME but for what the prisoners are spending behind Menard's walls...