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...take a shower. Valachi, convinced he would be murdered there, refused. Panicky, he tried to "stay out of crowds" in the prison yard, finally grabbed a length of iron pipe lying conveniently in the yard and bludgeoned a prisoner he thought was going to kill him. An associate warden told him a few minutes later that he had murdered the wrong man. "You can imagine how I felt," said Valachi. "I just told them to lock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Killers in Prison | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

...discordant note was struck, however, when you commented that "the only sour face belongs to the game warden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 27, 1963 | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

Even the police are helpful: the sheriff will often send a deputy to wake a hunter at 4 a.m. if he forgets his alarm clock. The only sour face belongs to the game warden and to the occasional cattleman whose cow comes down with colic from eating shell casings. Bird fanciers, who in some states have gotten doves classified as "songbirds" and made them illegal to hunt, fail to darken the Imperial Valley dawn. Game managers have proved that the birds' talent for dodging, plus enthusiastic mating habits, keep the dove population constant, and there is no reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunting: Dove Days | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

Last year, to foil the vigor seekers, the Fauna Preservation Society of Lon don launched Operation Oryx. Led by Major Ian R. Grimwood, chief game warden of Kenya Colony, an expedition of oryx savers spent two months in the deserts of Aden Protectorate in southern Arabia. They sighted four oryxes, lassoed three of them from a specially built car and brought them safely back alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conservation: A kingdom for the Oryx | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

...Social Sciences, the only House publication of any regularity, congratulates itself if it publishes twice in one year); and the students themselves refuse to shamble with the herd, affect oddities of dress, and show as much interest in Frederic A. Pennington as they do in John Sparrow, Warden of All Soul...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Profiles | 3/20/1963 | See Source »

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