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...easy task. For the most part, British prisons were built in Victorian times, when a prisoner was locked in his cell all day and even ate his meals in it. Thus the jails are ill prepared for today's more relaxed approach, in which inmates gather in rooms converted for cafeterias, craft shops and TV. Under such conditions, surveillance is not easy and escape routes are more numerous. These days, prisoners approaching the end of their terms are generally trusted on work details outside the prison walls. There simply are not enough guards to keep an eye on everyone...
Mouths Agape. As promised, the Mountbatten committee went right to work, toured the biggest prisons and interviewed inmates as well as guards and wardens. It also studied a flood of recommendations from the public. One man proposed hollow cell bars filled under pressure with dye so that anyone trying to saw through them is sprayed an incriminating color. While it gave short shrift to such blue-sky schemes, the committee did suggest that Wormwood Scrubbs use closed-circuit television and more searchlights for better prisoner surveillance. The equipment was installed within a matter of days...
...days, this would have been a sure path to the firing squad or a prison cell; but last week, in a surprise move, Tito dropped the government's criminal case and pardoned Rankovic for humanitarian reasons and because of his meritorious service in the past. As nothing else could have, that demonstrated how far along the road to reasoned mellowness Tito and Yugoslavia have come...
Better Photography. Though Aldrin had fewer troubles than earlier space walkers, Gemini 12 itself had more than its share of minor problems. One by one, during the flight, four of Gemini's 16 thrusters failed. Two of the craft's six fuel-cell stacks went dead, and excess water produced by the others threatened to flood the entire power system. To make room for the excess fuel-cell water, which is impure, the astronauts were asked to consume more than their planned ration of drinking water and ran short on the last day of the flight...
SILENT. As for Danny, he notified his lawyer,removed his shoes, went to sleep in his cell, and prepared to let the prosecutor try to prove his case...