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There she got to know every prisoner, memorizing names and family backgrounds and urging them to talk out their personal problems. Named deputy warden two years ago, she helped start a prison newspaper, made no objection when the paper began making suggestions for prison reform and criticizing prison personnel. Also in 1966 she established a "halfway house," a special section of the prison for boys whose terms were almost up. The doors were unlocked, the windows unbarred. During the day the boys worked at jobs in town at regular pay; on weekends they were allowed to go home to parents...
...seeing things I didn't see before," he says, and his record this season shows visible improvement: a league-leading 14-2. The unreliability of Detroit's other front-line pitchers is offset by the strength of its bullpen: among them, Relievers Pat Dobson, Jon Warden, John Killer and Fred Lasher boast a record of 15 victories and nine saves against only five defeats...
...SWENSON Warden...
...mostly spontaneous, some highly selective arson campaigns were apparently planned to destroy stores' credit records and give ghetto residents a financial reprieve. "Don't grab the groceries," one mother told her son, "grab the book." Many apparently also grabbed cash. Said Chicago's Cook County jail warden Winston Moore: "Never have I seen such rich prisoners." The average adult looter arrested in his territory, according to Moore, had $300 to $400 on his person, and even youngsters "had over $100 on them...
...shop in East Germany; of a heart attack; in the Republic of Armenia, USSR Emigrating to the U.S. from France during World War II, Eisler became the classic agent, a bespectacled little man living quietly in Queens, N.Y., and even serving as a World War II civil defense warden. Then, in 1946,1nformer Louis Budenz fingered him as one of Moscow's top agents-organizer of Red undergrounds in Spain, France, Switzerland and now the U.S., where he bossed the wartime Communist apparatus. Arrested on a conspiracy charge, Eisler jumped bail, got away aboard a Polish liner to Europe...