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...even in the farthest corners of the globe, they knew who Charles Colson was and what Woodward and Bernstein said he had done. They shook their heads as the president of the United States and his court tried to batter and beat the Constitution into submission. Everyday there was some new report out of Washington; Haldeman leaves the White House, Dean takes the stand, Nixon dodges the courts--the 18-minute gap heard round the world. Watergate captured imaginations in places they had never heard of Checkers or the Potomac and sent journalists scurrying to their wire machines to figure...
...word about working as a teller in a bank: don't. Not unless you like to file, unfile, and refile everyday. Not unless you enjoy counting pennies by the hundreds. Not unless a combination of low wages and stifling conditions allures...
...shipment of rats into small opaque plastic boxes. "The MSPCA inspects but they don't really do anything. They just walk through the building to see if the animals are all right. He's the only one who's close to them. He takes care of them everyday. You could torture thousands of mice and no one would know but the technician," he adds...
...while, it seemed to be working. Backed by Big Business, Connally's campaign, the richest ($4.3 million) of an candidate's, seemed to be gaining strength everyday. It appeared only a matter of time before the tough-talking Texan would be unstoppable. There would be no grass roots for this man: he would overwhelm an entire nation...
...such savagery take place? Prison experts readily cited some causes. The penitentiary was badly overcrowded; built in 1956 for 800 inmates, it routinely held up to 1,200, and the close confinement helped make fights and homosexual rape everyday occurances. In an investigation completed last month State Attorney General Jeff Bingaman also concluded that the prison was sorely understaffed. Moreover, the report found that the guards were underpaid, poorly trained and badly supervised. The situation, the report said, amounted to "playing Russian roulette with the lives of in mates, staff and the public...