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...Polk County District Judge Theodore H. Miller had a small problem. He was accidentally locked outside his chambers in Des Moines, Iowa. While a defendant and his attorney patiently waited, Miller summoned the janitor, who tried every trick he knew to unlock the door: a passkey, a credit card, even a small drill. No luck...
...sprawling 4,100-inmate Louisiana state prison complex in Angola, 35 miles northwest of Baton Rouge. Their voice is the Angolite, the most probing and literate inmate publication in the U.S. Last week Rideau, 38, and Sinclair, 35, both convicted murderers serving life terms, won a prestigious George Polk Award for special-interest reporting. One article cited was Rideau's chilling account of homosexual rape and subjugation behind bars. Another story submitted to the Polk judges was an investigative report by Sinclair raising the possibility of misfeasance in the murder of a prisoner five years ago. As a result...
...contrast, the top salaries that corporations and government agencies offer new lawyers range around $20,000. For big bucks, lawyers will continue to have to look to powerful firms, with blue chip clients, that can afford to bid high for talent. One of the Wall Street heavyweights, Davis, Polk and Wardwell, expects to have to pay $37,000, including fringes, for the 1980 graduates it wants...
Carter has spent almost an hour every day for the past month phoning backers in Iowa, and invitations to White House functions have been pouring into the state. Says Floyd Gillotti, deputy auditor of Polk County, who wears a gold tie clip with the presidential seal and Carter's signature: "Who would have thought a son of an immigrant born on the southwest side of Des Moines would pick up the phone and have the White House calling?" Says Steven Schier, a political scientist who has written about the Iowa caucuses: "There's a lot of residual loyalty...
...Florida, the critics are right: a reporter who flunked psychology in college became a licensed psychologist in Miami, a hamster was officially dubbed "animal psychologist" in Pensacola, and a pet chameleon was licensed as a psychoanalyst and sex therapist in Polk County...