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...main organization of prison officials, has a 495-item roster of adult-prison standards. A basic requirement is that each prisoner have his own cell of at least bathroom size, 60 sq. ft., half as large as cells provided in one Pennsylvania prison 150 years ago. But today only about a fifth of U.S. inmates have one-man, 60-sq.-ft. cells...
...recreates the endearing kind of dialogue which made the Cutters of Indianapolis genuine heroes. Some comes directly from Irving, who advised throughout the filmmaking; but Tesich continues to develop sincere relationships around off-beat but believable discussions. Shopping for a house, Garp and his wife watch calmly as a one-man plane crashes into the second floor of a prospective purchase. Comments the hero: "The chances of another plane hitting our house are astronomical, Helen. We'll take...
Bechtel began life virtually as a one-man operation, when a young German rancher named Warren A. Bechtel decided in 1898 to hire himself out with his mules to help construct a railroad line through Indian territory. The company established its name nationally in 1931 by helping to lead the eight-company consortium that built the Hoover...
Maurice Stans, 74, Secretary of Commerce and Nixon's chief political fund raiser. Pleaded guilty to five violations of campaign-financing laws but insisted they were "not intentional." Paid $5,000 fine. Runs one-man business-consulting firm in Pasadena, Calif. Awaiting congressional approval of his nomination by President Ronald Reagan as a director of Overseas Private Investment Corporation...
...would be difficult to overpraise the one-man magnetic field that is Mokae's Sam, or the audacious emotional tightrope walking that Price does with Hally, or the unyielding, unquestioning goodness that Glover puts into Willie. A taut grace governs all under Fugard's flawless direction. The final scene will not leave the mind's lens. Willie shoots his carfare money into a jukebox. Lena Home chants the lyrics of Little Man, You ve Had a Busy Day. The two men take each other's arms and glide across the stage in the manner of Rogers...