Word: warden
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York Yankees? No, according to Justice Harry Blackmun, 75, the members of the U.S. Supreme Court. Blackmun made that and a number of other engagingly informal observations about his colleagues last week during a three-day visit to Dartmouth College. "One of us we call 'the warden's friend' because he always votes against the poor prisoner who wants to get out," he told an audience of students, faculty and the public. Another is " 'the pornographer's friend' because he's a First Amendment absolutist." In a more serious vein, Blackmun defended...
Only now and then does one catch a handsome exit line today. Gary Gilmore, the murderer executed in Utah in 1977, managed a moment of brisk existentialist machismo when he told the warden, "Let's do it." There was a charm, a mist of the fey overlaying the terror, in the official last words that William Saroyan telephoned to the Associated Press before he died in 1981: "Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?" Last fall the British Actor John Le Mesurier dictated to his wife...
...addition to 800 prisoners now housed in the large wood-and-canvas tents, 350 are doubled up in 11-ft. by 4½-ft. cells designed for one person. The prison, which has a rated capacity of 2,700, is so overcrowded that Warden Reginald Pulley has confined many of its 3,900 prisoners to their cells, allowing them to emerge only for meals and showers. What's more, their work and education programs have been suspended. Says Pulley of his institution: "It's a monster to run. It's a time bomb...
...this: the intelligence branch of the U.S. State Department loses a safe full of top-secret documents and doesn't even know it. Eleven weeks later, the unlocked safe turns up in a prison, of all places; the warden returns it to State. Then a police informant confides that more documents are still inside the prison, but the Government doesn't believe him. Some of the documents later show up in the hands of a convict and a local TV news station...
...Scott Clark TE 88 Eugene Profit SE 89 Charlie Parker TE 90 Don Kokeskie DE 91 Jeff Clyde OG 92 Kanre Kolstad DT 93 Kevin Walsh DT 94 Scott Martin LB 95 Derek Kay DE 96 Errol Creek DE 97 Tom Mclnerney TE 98 Daug Batesky DT 99 Kyle Warden...