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...first Soviet secret policeman, Feliks E. Dzerzhinsky, who ran the police until his death in 1926. In the same building is dank Lubyanka prison, where political prisoners undergo their initial conditioning; in his novel The First Circle, Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote how its warders clicked their tongues to warn each other whenever they were escorting a prisoner: "One prisoner must never be allowed to encounter another, never be allowed to draw comfort or support from the look in his eyes...
...underdeveloped countries and plant trees in prison courtyards. One chapter even raised $2,500 to buy a used fire truck for an impoverished Indian reservation in Nebraska. An Illinois chapter has developed a highly successful ex-offenders employment service. In North Carolina, Jaycee convicts have toured nearby schools to warn students of the dangers of drugs, and inmate Jaycees in Washington State and Maryland have helped push prison-reform bills through the state legislatures...
...plumber. I don't know how humble I am, but I always try to stress the importance of the plumbing business. You can put millions of people in a great city and get along without lawyers, but you couldn't put them in there without plumbers. So I must warn you never to underestimate the importance of a plumber. In fact, I know anyone who has ever got a bill from a plumber doesn't underestimate them...
...measure of U.S. concern was evident when Bunker hastened to Washington for several days of talks. It was decided that Bunker should warn Thieu "on the highest authority"-meaning straight from Richard Nixon-that the Administration would be deeply disturbed if the election turned into a fiasco. Congress, Bunker was to emphasize, might balk at continuing aid to Saigon if Thieu ran unopposed...
...Many corporations have overextended themselves. Bankers have begun to dry up financial pipelines that were once easily accessible to entrepreneurs. The Alaskan unemployment rate is 13.8%. The state has put up booths at the border and at airports in Seattle, Blaine and Sumas, Wash., and Sunburst, Mont., where representatives warn would-be immigrants not to go north in search of work and riches...