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...with his right hand, he applies a light pressure with his left on his well-wisher's right elbow, thus keeping the line moving. When someone launches an extended conversation, Kefauver seems to give undivided attention-but he grabs for the next hand in line. The resulting traffic pile-up generally gets rid of the talker...
...Francisco newsboy, eying a pile of free copies of the Times in a hotel lobby, protested Ioudly; "What a lousy trick!" San Francisco newspaper executives were more discreet, but they began some hard thinking about the future. They stressed probable obstacles to electronic distribution of a national newspaper e.g., the opposition of the typographical unions, the problem of handling local advertising. Times Managing Editor Turner Catledge who pronounced the experiment a technical success granted that the paper had not yet thought through such problems. But he said that the Times was looking ahead to distributing its editions not only...
...been forced by sheer lack of cash to stop publishing. But this time self-made Financier Fox, 49, did not come back to the controls. He stepped aside by declaring the Post bankrupt, and three court-appointed trustees began trying to dig the paper out of its $2.2 million pile of debts...
...Rock Quarry Prison near Buford last week. Some of his details invited dispute. But beyond dispute was the fact that inmates of Rock Quarry had sunk so low on the scale of human hope that they had ducked out of the searing sun into the shadow of a rock pile, had smashed each other's legs in a despairing gesture of mass protest...
Slashed Tendons. Rock Quarry, Georgia's "Little Alcatraz" for incorrigible convicts, is a new (1950), clean but forbidding building guarded by two turreted towers. To Rock Quarry go the unruly convicts from other state prisons for twelve-month terms on the rock pile, a nearby granite quarry. From 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. (with three hours out for lunch and rest), under the eyes of hard-eyed guards armed with Winchesters and heavy sticks, they smash granite and push wheelbarrows. The discipline is as rough as the work. Five years ago 31 convicts staged a protest against both...