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...NPRA that had performed the operations of counting and locking-in every night refused to execute them after receiving the officers' memo. Early in the morning, the guards in the bullet-proof booth which controls the cell blocks of the prison locked the steel doors separating minimum from maximum security and announced that the state police were coming. Prisoners are afraid of state police because the "staties" have a reputation for making them run gauntlets and performing other brutalities after they quell a riot. The ensuing riot was the result of the prisoners' efforts to get back to their cells...
Knocking off U.S. Presidents has always been a cut-rate, do-it-yourself operation. Fanatics may be willing to go to any lengths, fiscally and otherwise. But the fact remains that from John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, as Sherrill reckons it, the total cost of all the guns used to kill Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy was under $75. Like the vote, the cheap gun is a great leveler...
...told his team right before the second half started that they should continue their attack. "This is the end," he said, and Harvard responded by opening the half with an offensive flurry. LeRoy Thompson challenged Maronpot with a hard shot that went wide, and fullbacks Lawson Wulsin and Ralph Booth kept the pressure on with high-chip shots to the forwards...
...plenty to choose from. When I'm depressed, my favorite is the Central Square stop of the Red Line, when the last train of the night is due, and the station is deserted. A big iron monster takes the place of the turnstile after the man at the change booth has gone home for the night. On particularly bad nights, the iron monster will swallow your quarter and not allow you on the platform. But there is nothing in Boston that quite compares with the view from the 59th Street platform of the IND line in New York when...
...They put most of the show on, for the first time, which was good," Rainie elaborated, "but they put this inane commentary from the booth along with it. It was not what you would call excellent coverage...