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...prison morale and reduced homosexuality-all in sharp contrast to other prisons, where discontent and riots are often attributed to sexual tensions. Hopper adds that Parchman is hardly progressive in any other way; as a prison farm, it simply has more space for informality than conventional prisons with centralized cell blocks...
Paean. Still, his personality maintains a subtle ambiguity. When his Jewish secretary visits him in his cell, he is Goldman/Dorff, switching characters with almost imperceptible changes in diction, accent, gesture. Back in the courtroom, he is Dorff again, exhorting the court -and the audience-with a great emotional paean to Hitler. "People...
Researchers studying the multifarious effects of LSD had new and disturbing reports last week. Not only does LSD expose unstable trippers to the risk of a psychotic break. Not only does it break down the chromosomes in some blood cells. The latest evidence is that it causes cell changes suspiciously like those seen in one form of leukemia. Given to a rat early in pregnancy, it usually results in stillborn or malformed young. Worse, LSD may have similar effects on the human fetus. And those chromosome breaks have been found in the babies of LSD users...
...State constitutions should be shorn of "limitations that prevent constructive legislative and executive action" and of the hundreds of absurdly inconsequential statutes that now encumber many of them. North Carolina's constitution, for example, prohibits male and female prisoners from sharing the same jail cell. Alabama's and South Carolina's provide for the disenfranchisement of wife beaters. New York's has a provision stipulating the width of ski trails. - State legislatures should never have more than 100 members (tiny New Hampshire has 424, or one for every 1,500 inhabitants); they should receive salaries...
Died. Joseph Leon Cardinal Cardijn, 84, "the workers' cardinal," the son of a Brussels concierge, who in 1912, to stir up religious interest in the industrial slums, started organizing cell-like groups of young adults, thereafter for five decades stumped the world marshaling 14-to-30-year-olds into the Jeunesse Ouvriere Chretienne (Young Christian Workers), a left-of-center self-help movement that today counts 2,000,000 members in 69 countries; of a heart attack; in Louvain, Belgium...