Word: tuckers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dozen years ago inmates at Tucker State prison in Arkansas ran the place. Prisoners convicted of murder toted guns, bullied their fellows into the fields at dawn and laughed them back to their cells at dusk. These prisoner/guards--called trusties--beat other inmates with a devilish tool called a strap, a leather slab with a wooden handle that, when handled "properly," can knock a victim six inches into the air. They tortured them by running pins and razor blades along the soft flesh under their fingernails. They gang-raped them in the barred dormitories where each prisoner slept with...
When Carll Tucker bought the august Saturday Review in 1977, he described its typical reader as "somebody's aunt." Unable to attract a younger audience of nieces and nephews, Tucker, 28, sold the ailing magazine last week to Robert I. Weingarten, 38, owner of Financial World (circ. 59,000), an investment magazine. The purchase price was not revealed. Says Tucker, who will stay on as editor of Saturday Review (circ. 500,000): "Going at the speed we were going at, we weren't going to get from here to there...
...magazine into four separate monthlies on arts, education, science and society. The new format was confusing to readers and financially ruinous. Saturday Review went bankrupt in 1973, and Cousins came to the rescue. He ran it for the next four years and converted it to a fortnightly. Under Tucker, the magazine added more reportage and brighter graphics. But it continued losing between $500,000 and $1 million a year. (To keep losses from going even higher, Tucker changed it back to a monthly with the May issue, out this week.) Earlier this year, Tucker came close to selling the magazine...
Robert W. Tucker, 55, is a professor of political science at Johns Hopkins and co-director of studies of the Lehrman Institute...
...present dangerous impasse we have reached?in our direct dealings with Iran, our vulnerability in the Persian Gulf, our overall relationship Tucker with the Soviet Union ?gives every sign of persisting under a President so far unable to make a clear break from the recent and largely discredited past. Carter should now be concentrating on establishing a credible American military presence in and around the Persian Gulf. This presence cannot be restricted to elements of naval and air power. To be credible both to the states of the region and the Soviet Union, it must be quite visible...