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...Ellis Niantic...
...disturbed, however, by Mr. Trippett's failure to mention the lawsuits that might result if some of these tribes win their claims. For example, will the Pequot Indians return to the Niantic Indians the lands they stole in the early 17th century? Will the Pawnee return the lands they stole from the Sioux and Cheyenne? Will the Iroquois return all the land they stole from the Huron, the Tobacco, the Erie, the Conestoga and the Illinois...
...institution that is rigorously trying the free-choice approach is the so-called Just Community in Niantic, Conn. Parole is granted only after a pre-determined sentence is served, and there is no connection between getting out and participating in the educational and other-special rehabilitative programs that are offered. The main effort is to get the prisoners?both men and women?to participate in running the prison and to learn to be responsible for their own action. All decisions are left up to the majority, with guards and prisoners entitled to one vote each. "They're the ones...
...fearless judge to arraign and try his prisoners. Such a man was State Supreme Court Justice Philip James McCook, who was assigned to conduct a special trial term for his cases, has since been continued for two more terms. A scholarly jurist whose off-bench fun is farming at Niantic, Conn., Justice McCook has a kindly face and manner which belie the fighting spirit that won him a D. S. C. in France at 45, and a fight with Tammany for his seat on the bench. Last week when defense attorneys in the current restaurant racket trial suggested that...
Born 56 years ago in Niantic, Conn., Colonel Ayres was raised in Boston, got his start teaching school in Puerto Rico, where he took up statistics on the side. Later he worked for the Russell Sage Foundation in the dual capacity of director of education and director of statistics. During the War he became the Army's first statistical officer, rising to the rank of colonel. In 1918 he went to France with Woodrow Wilson as statistical officer of the Peace Commission. He has no hobbies, little social life, is seldom seen outside his bank except when making speeches...