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...Arkansas' Tucker prison farm, "the Tucker telephone" was a fearsome means of communicating the superintendent's displeasure. It consisted of an old-fashioned crank-phone apparatus that was wired to the genitals and one of the big toes of recalcitrant prisoners. When the crank was spun, the recipient of the message was shocked nearly unconscious. James Bruton, the superintendent who designed and used that device, resigned in 1966 when state officials began a series of investigations of brutality in the Arkansas prisons (TIME, Feb. 9, 1968). Last week Bruton pleaded no contest to charges that he violated prisoners...
Flamboyant O. Roy Chalk has made millions in Manhattan real estate, but as a transportation magnate he has sometimes spun his wheels. He failed in a bid to buy the New York City subway system some years ago, and the deteriorating bus service provided by his D.C. Transit System has annoyed Washingtonians. He founded Trans Caribbean Airways in 1945, and has since run it as a family company: his wife is secretary and interior decorator, his brother-in-law is executive vice president, and a son-in-law is a director. The line lost money heavily last year, and Chalk...
...behind radio's popular computerized boxing series (TIME, Nov. 8, 1968). For the fight, a panel of several hundred sportswriters and ex-boxers rated each of the champs on 129 characteristics (speed, tendency to cut, ring generalship). The results were then put through an NCR 315 computer, which spun out a punch-by-punch script...
Many Libertarians have had at least an affection for Miss Rand, but many have rejected her. Some complain that she is romantic rather than logical, that she is at best a "pseudo-philosopher." Others have "spun out" logically; starting with the premise that the best government is the least government, they predictably have become anarchists and are now appalled that Rand defends government as necessary to national defense. Some have abandoned the Right, in name if not in philosophy; many of these have joined with various "hippies" and New Leftists in an attempt to translate their individualism into life-style...
...Reivers is a raucous, good-natured ode to the end of innocence -a kind of motorized Huckleberry Finn. William Faulkner's original novel spun a mellow tale about an eleven-year-old lad named Lucius McCaslin and his wild-eyed adventures on a trip to Memphis in 1905. Screenwriters Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr., having done previous Faulkner adaptations in The Long Hot Summer and The Sound and the Fury, by this time know the Yoknapatawpha territory more than passing well. Their sharp and reverent screenplay, featuring a felicitous narration by Burgess Meredith, helps make The Reivers...