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They are getting the gas chamber at San Quentin ready again. It has been 23 years since an inmate was put to death in the prison that overlooks San Francisco Bay. Now eight volunteers from among the guards are rehearsing mock executions. Inspectors are checking the plumbing to ensure that the systems are working smoothly. If all goes as planned, the airtight steel door of the green chamber will open on April 3 to admit Robert Alton Harris, 37, then close behind...
...would roll right over him. He has lived out the sad stereotype of the jazzman's life: near genius, full junkie, part-time thief, full-time con. He spent most of the years between 1954 and 1985 behind bars. Not that he always minded. At San Quentin he was co-leader, with Art Pepper, of the warden's band. There was always a way -- an easy way -- to score whatever he wanted, from alcohol to cocaine. Most of all, as Morgan now recognizes, prison gave him a way to lie low, to hide from himself and the demands...
...certainly don't think [fundraising] is aprimary purpose of any Harvard Club in thecountry," says Quentin G. Heisler '65, presidentof the Chicago Harvard Club. "What we try to do isprovide a sense of community...
There's no need for the Colorado football team to pose for next year's program photos. Just call up the local police department and ask to borrow their mug shots. Post-college contracts? How about five-to-10 years for that upstart team in San Quentin? Terms non-negotiable, with a trade option in three years--if performance is up to standard...
...Senate in 1970. He won 30,074 votes in 1988 as presidential candidate of the Pennsylvania-based Consumer Party. -- HUEY P. NEWTON, cofounder of the Black Panthers served three years in prison for shooting an Oakland policeman. In and out of jail since, he was released from San Quentin this summer after serving two months for parole violations. -- JAMES EARL RAY, convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., was sentenced to 99 years in prison. He escaped briefly in 1977 and continues to maintain that he was framed by the FBI. -- DAN ROWAN, cohost of Laugh-In, died...