Word: tuckers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report, ordered and then suppressed by former Governor Orval Faubus, that painted a picture of hell in Arkansas. To maintain discipline, prisoners were beaten with leather straps, blackjacks, hoses. Needles were shoved under their fingernails, and cigarettes were applied to their bodies. For the truly unregenerate, there was the "Tucker telephone," a form of electric-shock torture used by James Bruton, former superintendent of the Tucker prison farm. A prisoner was strapped to a table. Wires leading from an old-fashioned crank telephone were attached to one of his big toes and to his genitals. The crank was spun...
Grotesque Practices. When Thomas Murton, Rockefeller's 39-year-old reform appointee to the prison superintendent's job, took over early in 1967, enforced homosexuality and traffic in liquor and narcotics were rampant at Tucker and the Cummins prison farm...
RAYMOND B. TUCKER...
...among students," says Dale Hesser, a Mattydale, N.Y., earth-science teacher. "A light comes into their eyes, and it's much easier to motivate them. If I couldn't teach this way, I would get out of teaching." At Los Angeles' Fremont High School, Sophomore Billy Tucker, who has trouble with arithmetic and reading, figures he will be fortunate to pass his discovery-based chemistry course-yet he is enjoying it." In the other subjects you just sit there and are supposed to learn," he says. "Here you can get up and do something on your...
...week's end the hospital squad included some of the game's best box-office draws. New York Giant Runner Tucker Frederickson was out with torn ligaments in his right knee. Having just recovered from a similar injury to his left knee, he was so gloomy that he was threatening to quit football. A wrecked knee cartilage has also sidelined New York Jets Emerson Boozer and Matt Snell; a dislocated shoulder stopped Baltimore Colt End Raymond Berry; broken bones have benched Giant Tackle Jim Moran and Clem Daniels, top rusher of the A.F.L.-leading Oakland Raiders. Kansas City...