Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...return the favor by helping out at a fund-raising drive for show business's Variety Clubs International charities. Queen Victoria's great-grandson found Manhattan's haute cuisine smashing good, and said the same for the city's low life, capping a party-filled stay with a visit to Greenwich Village's Electric Circus...
...hang-ups and converting society's misfits to crime-free lives. In progressive prisons, to be sure, guards are taught to break up the inmate culture by friendly communication; inmates are classified in graded groups, promoted for good conduct and hustled toward pa role. Indeed, the average stay today is 21 months; the average lifer exits in 20 years...
...this usually amounts to what Penologist Howard Gill calls "birdshot penology." All the bands, baseball, radios and rodeos cannot gloss the fact that real rehabilitation is rare. Caging still outranks curing; short funds dilute short-stay effectiveness. And prison job-training is a scandal. Federal prisons do well; yet only 17% of released federal inmates find jobs related to their prison work. Most state prisoners get no usable training because business and unions have rammed through laws preventing competition by prison industries. At least one-third of all inmates simply keep the prison clean-or do nothing...
There is a certain urgency to the situation. RUS has a broad mandate to stay firm on its essential demands. Any compromise on these would be a betrayal. But that does not rule out considerable dialogue on what the demands mean and how best to achieve them. The essential ingredient is a willingness on the part of administration and Trustees to give and take on the two really important issues as well as the problem of student seating on administration committees. On the seating question, progress is being made, since several college and Trustee committees are actively seeking student members...
Harvard has been further hampered by having to stay inside for so many days because of bad weather. Unlike Navy and Washington who have been outside since February 15, the Crimson laxmen, who only went outside for the first time on Tuesday, have had little chance to work at full speed and get in top condition...