Word: saner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Home Leave? One result is the Bennett-invented Federal Prisons Industries Inc., which does a $40 million a year business with other Government agencies and turns a $4,000,000 annual profit over to the Treasury. Another Bennett innovation is saner sentencing. In the old days, all federal sentences were for fixed periods, and a parole board could not even consider a case until one-third of a convict's term had elapsed. Bennett inspired the 1958 Omnibus Sentencing Act, which allows far greater parole flexibility and permits a judge to jail a man for three to six months...
...leaves the family ranch in Southern California to study music in the East, returns a year later with a fiance in tow. Cass, studying for a Ph.D. at Berkeley, is panic-stricken. She rushes home to break up the engagement, intends to regain possession of her less brilliant but saner sister's soul, and go off with her, far away, to live happily ever after. When other methods fail, Cass attempts suicide. But Judith and her young man, already secretly married, save her life and their own happiness. Cassandra returns to her highly refined academic loneliness. The book ends...
Federal aid, according to Alfred and Miss Hellman, would lead to a general reduction of ticket prices, a rebirth of community theater, and a saner attitude toward financial success. Kerr, however, cited an experiment in which a New York producer raised the price of back-row seats and immediately found them in demand. "We can always sell the orchestra," he shrugged, "it's more than a question of price...
...lesser benefices conferred by Britain's empire builders on untutored natives was the British monetary system of pence, shillings (12 pence) and pounds (20 shillings). As the empire slowly dissolved, most colonials seized the first chance to convert to a saner system. India, Pakistan and Ceylon switched to a decimalized rupee, Canada and Singapore to a decimalized dollar. Last week South Africa, whose Afrikaner government is intent on being as separate from Britain as it can be without taking itself out of the Commonwealth, replaced the pound with a decimal system of Rands and cents...
Inside the hall, the mood was saner, except when a well-aimed egg broke in the lap of the theologian on the platform, bringing from Steve Allen a drawn-out denunciation of "this coward who threw the egg and ran," and from the victim an assurance that the missile was not rotten...