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...officers have reason to feel unloved, but when 1,317 of them convened in San Francisco last week, they found one visitor eager to sit at their feet. Soviet economist Valeri Sorokin came to the conference to invite some U.S. thrift executives to his country. And what lessons might they convey? Explained Sorokin: "We want to set up a real competitive industry. We want you to teach us about your mistakes...
...recent visitor wearing a navy blue vintage sailor's suit, shorts, black knee socks and an electric blue...
...many of the problems of male prisoners, notably overcrowding. The California Institution for Women at Frontera currently bulges with 2,500-odd inmates, instead of the 1,011 it was built to hold. At the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester County, N.Y., many inmates are double bunked; a visitor can easily see beds sticking up over the half walls that separate individual cubicles. With two lockers and two small metal closets filling up the narrow confines of each space, prisoners barely have room to turn around...
BOSTON--A visitor at Boston University last night would never have guessed the school's leadership hung precariously in the balance...
...course, the clowning isn't always well received. When leading a visitor into one Babies Hospital room, Christensen was greeted with frantic wails. Coattails flying, he rushed out of the room. "That's my cue to leave," he explained. And as with any audience, some patients just refuse to see the humor. Christensen once paid a call on a teenage boy who was sitting by a window with his head lowered. He kept it down as Stubs conducted his exam. "I asked, 'Have you ever had your funny bone examined?' " Christensen recalls. "He said nothing. 'Does your nose ever turn...