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...borders a golf course and a river in which convicts can fish. Haldeman's sits at the edge of a blossom-filled valley devoted to the commercial production of flower seeds. Both prisons have outdoor playing fields and recreational periods that stretch from the end of the workday in midafternoon until prisoners choose to go to bed. Haldeman is living in a cubicle in a 30-man dormitory. Mitchell has one cellmate and, because he is over 40, is sure of getting a bottom bunk...
...schedules, and as the presumably prosperous summer of '77 approaches, some other employers are giving the concept a fresh look. In the Chicago offices of the big Foote, Cone & Belding ad agency, 550 employees this week begin a Memorial Day-to-Labor Day schedule that extends their workday to 9½ hours (8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.) but allows staffers to take either Fridays or Mondays off. David Ofher, general manager of the office, sees the experiment as a reward for improved business in the Chicago branch during the past several years. Says...
...pleasant ways to pass the time. Their husbands are often away on business, or in jail, or calling on their mistresses. The wives are isolated not only by bodyguards but also by ignorance of the details of their husbands' business activities. The men's workday deeds are not discussed at dinner...
...advanced the investigations in 60 more. When terrorists bombed the Nahariya-Haifa bus in 1973, police questioned the driver about suspicious passengers. He could not remember anything until Captain Yshaya Horowitz, head of the hypnosis squad, sent him into a medium-depth trance and asked him to relive his workday. The driver eventually described a suspicious rider with a brown paper parcel under his arm. Working on this lead, Israeli cops quickly collared the Arab bombers, who confessed to the bombing...
...plate. Carl Yastrzemski is wound up in an arc, his face etched in a wide, silent scream. Sweep around in a dizzy circle. Thirty thousand necks upstretched, lungs roaring up in desperation. Sweep wider, around a city, a hundred miles, New England. The energy of a million stored-up workday hells turned to fervent belief, poised. All that energy, with a terrific whoosh, tornados up from all around, whirling and curling toward that white dot in the sky, hanging and helpless, dead. But it takes on a strange power, that ball, for it sucks everything in. The cloud rushes into...