Word: controller
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Chou should know. In a country where Mao once said that "the gun must never be allowed to command the party," the army has, in fact, taken almost complete control. China watchers in Hong Kong reckon Huang now to be the second most powerful military man in China, after Defense Minister Lin Piao, who is Mao's heir apparent...
...rebels hurled tin cups, plates, pipes and anything else they could wrench from their cell walls. After seizing four of the building's twelve floors, they smashed 3-in.-thick glass windows and tossed chairs and garbage to the streets below. The melee was finally brought under control the following day; the prisoners were promised an official investigation of jail conditions. Remarkably, only two injuries-both minor -were reported...
...Rockefeller directly responsible for correcting the situation; indeed, the city's jails contain 4,400 sentenced prisoners who should be transferred elsewhere. While accepting 300 for confinement in state facilities, Rocky reminded Lindsay that the first priority was to restore order. Even with the transfers, only two guards control 250 prisoners on each floor. The most confused official of all seemed to be the city's commissioner of correction, George McGrath, who admitted the overcrowding-and simultaneously voiced disbelief. "If things were all that bad," he said, "I'd have heard about it before this...
...else but Consumer Reports, a monthly magazine that has been cataloguing caveats for shoppers since before Nader was old enough to lose control of a defective kiddie car. Not that there is any rivalry between Nader and CR. He is now, in fact, a director of the magazine's parent corporation, the nonprofit Consumers Union of U.S., Inc. The publicity accorded Nader's personal crusades, plus the general rise in consumerism, has no doubt contributed to CR's surging popularity. Founded along with Consumers Union in 1936, CR took 30 years to reach a circulation...
...ocean eludes him in a way that other scenes do not. Landscapes are firm and familiar; still lifes intimate. Portraits, by their very nature, are personal. But the seascape must represent the aloof and detached ocean, and it is this defiant refusal to bend to man's control that has driven painters to conquer the sea on canvas. In a refreshing summertime exhibit, the Newark Museum has mounted two dozen marine paintings that show the various ways in which 19th century artists sensed the waters' many moods...