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Seott M. Bowie of Glaverly Hall and Omaha, Nebraska; Douglas M. Brenner of Lowell House and Portsmouth, Virginia; Stephen B. Calderwood of Peabody Terrace and Andover; David P. Cheruin of Quiney, House and Union, New Jersey; John M. Conley of Kirkland House and Milton...
Civilian prisoners would be equally surprised by "the castle"-the Navy brig in Portsmouth, N.H. To look after 480 inmates, it has 370 guards and other staff members, including three psychologists, four psychiatrists, and six chaplains. The white-towered castle is run by Marine Colonel Walter Domina, a cigar-smoking former fighter pilot who offers his prisoners a choice of 25 vocational-training programs. The prison library is stocked with 11,000 books; inmates are allowed to publish their own magazine, complete with girlie pictures, which they get from the Armed Forces Press Service. Since Domina took over last July...
...perfect, of course, even at Portsmouth. Incorrigibles are still likely to land in "the hole": solitary confinement below ground in dank semidarkness. The Navy is also investigating reports that Portsmouth has a major drug-trafficking problem. But such black marks pale in comparison with the grim conditions at one of the military's least reformed prisons: the Army stockade at Mannheim, Germany...
Leave Her Alone. Nixon also pursued the independent Mrs. Smith, who had opposed the plane earlier but had voted for it this year in committee. He sent her a "Dear Margaret" letter announcing that he was "pleased" to rescind an order by the Johnson Administration closing the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on the Maine-New Hampshire border. With cool class, Mrs. Smith showed the letter to newsmen, and blandly said that she was "very much gratified" by the President's decision...
...mating season has just begun, and a pigeon named Concorde, assigned to fly 170 miles with microfilmed letters tied to one leg. was found dallying in a loft only a mile from its starting point. But another bird carrying a microfilmed letter between two brothers in London and Portsmouth arrived in only 2? hours...