Word: unlocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Given the facts of penal bureaucracy and sheer ignorance, critics like Robison sometimes wonder whether the only rational solution is simply to unlock all jails and prisons, which clearly breed crime and hold only 5% of the nation's criminal population while costing far more to run than all the crimes committed by their inmates. Pessimism is well founded, but the encouraging sign is that few if any Americans defend the system as it is. From the President to the lowliest felon, the nation wants a humane system that truly curbs crime. This is the year of the prisons...
...tested in San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles-to make New York taxis less tempting targets for holdup men. Sturdy, locked cashboxes will be welded to the frames of New York's 11,700 cabs. All fares will be promptly deposited in the boxes, which the drivers cannot unlock. There the money will remain until the boxes are opened at the taxi garage. Drivers will be encouraged to carry only about $5 in change and cab riders educated to have exact-or near-exact -amounts of money available to pay for their rides. Thus, according to proponents...
...installation of emergency locks on glass doors in University Hall I bore with good humor, even though the cost of the glass the anticipated invader would break in order to reach his hand through to unlock the lock was smaller than the cost of the lock itself. But bars on the window are another matter. In our office, they are screwed into years-old wood which would never withstand a good, strong kick, negating their effectiveness at the outset. The assumption that protestors would sneak in a basement window rather than march openly through normal entryways I also find offensive...
...priest, Don Arrigoni (Hardy Kruger), are enjoying the favors of novices, nuns and the prioress. In the denouement the nun of Monza, for her sins, is sealed alive in a dungeon. So was the incident at Monza until the Archbishop of Milan-now Pope Paul VI-helped unlock 347-year-old church records in 1957 to reveal the scandal. Perhaps the fate was too harsh for the lady-or for her chronicles-but it is the kind that this dubbed and sluggish adaptation deserves...
...takes a novice gourmet's interest in food and wine, but he lives simply in a three-bedroom bachelor apartment. He plays the harpsichord and is studying Japanese because he feels that Japan will be "the country of the future." He muses about how he might help "to unlock some of those billions managed by our readers so that they benefit society instead of private interests." To that end, he is investigating ways of directing investments into city slums...