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...prisoner's days can be spent productively?a queer industriousness, to be sure???or endlessly loafing. At Leavenworth, he might do his time making pig bristles into paintbrushes, and earn about 60¢ an hour. In Texas, the director of prisons says he runs "quasimilitary operations," and his close-cropped inmates in uniform white cotton must work for nothing. Rick Sikes was eligible for a parole hearing after his first 120 days at Leavenworth, but he waived the opportunity; a second bank robbery conviction, and its 50-year sentence, await him in Texas. "I don't care nothin...
...arson, robbery, assault or weapons possession. Nationally, however, just over half of all prisoners are locked up for such crimes, and in Georgia, for instance, the overwhelming majority of prisoners are serving time for non-violent crimes. The rest are not angels with dirty faces but crooks, to be sure???thieves, mostly?stupid or bad or both. Yet they are not generally the outlaws who make it scary even to think about going downtown for dinner and a movie...
...essential reason for the elegant, confident glow of the evening. Editor William F. Buckley Jr. would shine quietly, modestly. Others, like Publisher William Rusher, would exhort the assembled "to stamp out any remaining embers of liberalism." A war whoop was in the air?black tie, to be sure???but still the unmistakable sound of a faction reprieved, at last in power, thanks to the boyish man at the other end of the country, whose time had definitely come...
...global inflation virus has defied all attempts at treatment. The U.S., most European countries and Japan have all experimented?halfheartedly, to be sure???with some form of wage-price controls, tax and monetary tinkering or high interest rates; nothing has worked for long...
Asked to select the six prettiest girls of the Junior Class at Syracuse University, Artist James Montgomery Flagg wrote: "Sure???I'll pick out the prettiest gals? if any?or if six. All sorts of colleges every year do this to me, salt water, fresh water and bilgewater colleges, and I have had to gaze on some of the most god-awful female mugs in this broad tho' narrow land! I know now why there are so many pretty gals in New York?all the ugly ones are in colleges...
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