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...Sharpshooters were advised to take aim at the threatening convicts?"but you'll have to have hostile action by the inmates to fire." Then the two helicopters, loaded with tear-gas canisters, swept low over the prison, one of them barely clearing the walls. "To all posts," barked the command radio. "Jackpot One is about to make drop." There was a pause. "Jackpot has made drop. Base to all posts ?move in; launch the offensive...
...traveler's checks rather than cash. Nearly everywhere, traveler's checks command more favorable rates than cold cash. Reason: dollar bills must be bundled up, insured and shipped back to the U.S. before they can be credited to a money changer's account, but traveler's checks can be credited by computer almost instantly...
...change money on weekdays. An exchange office that does business on weekends can often command virtually any rates that it pleases...
Quinn's fear of failure and the problem with the season have a common source: the same old production executives, like Jack Webb, and the old writers are still in command and timorously repeating and protecting themselves. The formats and scripts, as ever, are beneath the talents of the first-rank performers now appearing on television...
...prison program's main booster is Gary Hill, 31, a Lincoln, Neb., metals-company executive, who took command five years ago, after the first prison chapter was established in West Virginia in 1962. Hill got hooked on the concept after he noticed that ex-convicts, long hired for his family business, made exceptionally good workers. He organized a Jaycee prison chapter and set up a referral service for convicts that now spans the country and guarantees ex-cons assistance with jobs, housing and counseling. Says Hill: "The Jaycees allow inmates, who historically have had all their individuality taken away...