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...biggest prisons and interviewed inmates as well as guards and wardens. It also studied a flood of recommendations from the public. One man proposed hollow cell bars filled under pressure with dye so that anyone trying to saw through them is sprayed an incriminating color. While it gave short shrift to such blue-sky schemes, the committee did suggest that Wormwood Scrubbs use closed-circuit television and more searchlights for better prisoner surveillance. The equipment was installed within a matter of days...
...investigation's harshest denunciation so far, Ribicoff then criticized Yorty for failing to provide leadership in the ghetto: "You are giving short shrift, and you are shortchanging a few generations by doing absolutely nothing for the disadvantaged groups." The rest of the questioning was equally acrimonious, but Yorty remained calm, his face reddening only occasionally. As he saw it, he told the subcommittee, the trouble was that "in the East they tend to look at the whole nation, look at the cities and think they are all the same. They are all different, and they have to be handled...
...turned out to be something of a kook's tour. First there was that midnight wedding in Las Vegas with the bride in a short shrift of a shift and the groom in the sockless sports outfit he happened to have on when they jetted out of Paris. Then Brigitte Bardot, 31, and her new, third husband, Gunter Sachs, 33, roared off to Hollywood for a Mad Hatter nuptial dinner, with Danny Kaye personally whipping up his special seven-course Chinese feed for the couple. Next morning, on they zoomed to Tahiti for a get-away-from-everything idyl...
...Adenauer accuses of unfairly aiding his German Socialist opposition in the immediate postwar years) and at Socialist Party Leader Schumacher. Adenauer scarcely mentions his successor as Chancellor, Ludwig Erhard, who during these years as Economic Affairs Minister was laying the groundwork for the "economic miracle," and he gives short shrift to every postwar Allied leader save Harry Truman. His characterization of Truman, whom he credits with saving Western Europe from Communism through his strong stand in 1947-48 in Greece and Turkey, might well be applied to der Alte himself: "Truman was a personality apt to stick tenaciously...
...Short Shrift. Urban needs have historically been given short shrift in state capitals and in Washington, largely because legislators are elected from districts based on the farm-heavy population ratios of 40 years ago. Reapportionment of state and congressional election districts has already begun to help balance the scales for the metropolis, but the suburbs, rather than the city, will get most of the benefit...