Word: plates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Bennett arrived, all federal prisoners were being tossed combustibly together, murderers and rapists with income tax evaders and car thieves, and lock-stepped to meals that were eaten from a tin plate under a guard's glare. Bennett's monument is "individualized" treatment that separates prisoners by degrees of dangerousness and redeemability. The vast majority are given only as much restraint as they require. Today, more than 40% of federal prisoners are in prisons virtually without walls-working outside at everything from roadbuilding to reforestation...
...Bert Powers of the International Typographical Union was able to silence Manhattan dailies for 114 days (TIME cover, ' March 1, 1963), Detroit's newspaper strike was a measure of the power of one stubborn man. Only one other union joined Frazee's walkout: the paper and plate handlers' union. The other twelve newspaper unions in Detroit, having long since signed new contracts, ; are fretting to get back to work...
Where once they had only to pass a plate among Sunday attenders, churches nowadays raise money in ways that range from bingo to bonds. Fund raising brings up questions of taste, discretion, prudence and donor psychology that stir heated debates across the land. TIME correspondents, sampling opinion among churchgoers and ministers last week, found that the "crasser" gimmicks of fund raising are giving way, but only slowly, to various forms of direct donation...
...buying the right clothes. "She was still tacky," says Eugenia Lassater, "so I told her to turn herself over to a department store and let them dress her. Bird has credited me with teaching her how to dress. But it was the store." (Even today she is no fashion plate. Washington society writers have caught her wearing the same beige turban for months now, and some archly refer to Bird's familiar white chiffon evening dress as her "Vanity Fair nightgown.") Says Lady Bird: "I like clothes. I like them pretty. But I want them to serve...
Galbraith has been away a long time, so now he can look back wryly and serenely on the frugal farmers who grew a cornucopia of crops, on the old Baptist church where no collection plate was passed, on the chaste, sober citizens who were chaste and sober largely because sin was expensive. Penny pinching was a way of life. If Galbraith's politicking father ever earned the disapprobation of his fellow citizens, it was not because he bought votes, but because he might have got them cheaper...