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...They were originally located in Avon Park, Fla., El Reno, Okla., Allenwood, Pa., Florence and Wickenburg, Ariz., and Tulelake, Calif. Three have been sold. Florence and Allenwood are still maintained by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons for short-term convicts. And El Reno is used for cattle grazing...
MORAL INDIGNATION over the "Song My Massacre" has welled up all across the country. Few scandals have served so many purposes for so many people. It provided Time and Newsweek with striking covers last week; it has sold record numbers of newspapers. Politicians are quietly incorporating it into their arsenals of non-alienating polemic...
...second D.N.S. story on Nov. 20, and he turned up Paul Meadlo for another numbing account last week. D.N.S. passed Meadlo on to CBS for a television interview with Mike Wallace, for which D.N.S. received $10,000 and Meadlo got traveling expenses. For yet another story this week, again sold by D.N.S., Hersh has talked to a returned soldier who describes the killing of a Vietnamese woman by members of Lieutenant Calley's platoon two days before...
...crisis has been long building. In a current book, The Price of Money, Sidney Homer and Richard Johannesen date the bear market in bonds from 1946, when high-quality corporate debentures sold at interest rates of 2.45%. But the rise in rates and the concurrent drop in bond prices have speeded up enormously since the current inflation began in 1965-and especially this year. Last week, for example, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority sold $137 million worth of bonds at a tax-free interest yield of 7%, compared with a 5⅞ yield on bonds that it had sold four...
...Extension. The inspiration for Penn Life came originally from the late Roy Markus, a pharmacist, who in 1939 decided that disability income insurance could be sold profitably door-to-door to small businessmen. He built up a chain of agencies in the Midwest and on the Eastern Seaboard. Beyer joined Markus at 18, and by 23 was earning $340,000 a year as manager of the Minneapolis office...