Word: rahway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mystery of the punctual professional burglars was finally solved when police arrested two inmates at nearby minimum security Rahway State Prison, Thomas Robinson, 31, and Melvin Muldrow, 29. Prison officials had discovered, they said, that the culprits would sneak out during the designated visiting hours, practice the trade for which they were originally sentenced, and sneak back in before they were missed. A stash of loot worth almost $5,000 was found in the woods outside the prison...
...reasons for the crime of rape have been endlessly debated, but only now, partly because of pressure from feminist groups, is systematic research under way. One psychotherapeutic program for convicted rapists, conducted at Rahway state prison in New Jersey, reports that 75% of the 150 offenders in treatment had been sexually abused as children, often so brutally that they repressed the memory...
...telephone company employee, Taylor was raised in Rahway, N.J., and traces a good deal of his relentless drive to his days in the local high school. "Two of my classmates went to college and ten went to Sing Sing," he says jokingly. Taylor got a scholarship to Brown University, where he took a B.A. in Renaissance history and a master's in U.S. economic history. At one time he planned a teaching career. Instead, at age 25, he went to work as a trainee for The First Boston Corp., an investment banking firm, where he quickly rose...
Died. Edward C. Kendall, 86, biochemist who, with two colleagues, shared a 1950 Nobel Prize for the discovery of cortisone; in Rahway, N.J. After joining the Mayo Clinic in 1914, Kendall succeeded in isolating thyroxine from the thyroid glands of cattle, a development of importance to patients whose growth had been stunted by hormonal deficiencies. In 1930 he began research into the secretions of the adrenal cortex, and during eight years isolated six hormones, including cortisone, a substance effective in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, Addison's disease and other ailments...
Fifteen Demands. The outbreak began in an auditorium at the hub of the sprawling, X-shaped penitentiary. A few more than 550 of Rahway's 1,143 prisoners were attending a regular movie screening on Thanksgiving Eve. Making It had just concluded when an inmate leaped onto the stage and launched into an angry speech denouncing the injustice of the prison system and society at large. He asked anyone who did not want to join a revolt to leave the hall immediately. Only 150 inmates stayed. Warden U. Samuel Vukcevich arrived to try to calm the disturbance, but within...