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With T'ao purged and his well-oiled machine in Canton torn apart, the Cantonese in 1968 seemed forced to start all over again, as they had in 1949, to build a party apparatus, increase production, and figure out how their city, along with all the other torn, bloodied parts of China, might fit back into one whole. They faced this long haul, Vogel says, "with less optimism. less idealism, and less willingness to sacrifice," yet with "more wisdom and experience...
...Arkansas' Tucker prison farm, "the Tucker telephone" was a fearsome means of communicating the superintendent's displeasure. It consisted of an old-fashioned crank-phone apparatus that was wired to the genitals and one of the big toes of recalcitrant prisoners. When the crank was spun, the recipient of the message was shocked nearly unconscious. James Bruton, the superintendent who designed and used that device, resigned in 1966 when state officials began a series of investigations of brutality in the Arkansas prisons (TIME, Feb. 9, 1968). Last week Bruton pleaded no contest to charges that he violated prisoners...
...Faculty members are prone to react," he said. "When they pass painters in the hall, they treat them as if they were part of the apparatus rather than people...
...STUDENTS who accept the Corporation as benign should take a close look at the extremely political nature of the punishments and the apparatus which made them. Any concern for academic freedom and legal procedures of the Administration has been sacrificed to insure that those who have attacked the Corporation most strongly will be kept from other students. The Committee on Rights and Responsibilities transgresses its own professed beliefs in order to make its very political punishments...
...University has a very detailed procedure for trying and disciplining those students and faculty found guilty of involvement in disruptive acts. It seems to have no such sensitive apparatus for recognizing and efficiently correcting the traditional social and racial injustices in which it participates," the statement said...