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...course of each week, TIME correspondents are accustomed to covering everything from concerts to Cabinet meetings, from labor strikes to society soirees. Seldom have they been faced with an assignment as grim as that demanded of them by this week's cover story on prisons: to provide nation's editors in New York with an inside look at some of the nation's jails and penitentiaries...
...bleak picture indeed, and nothing short of restructuring the distribution of the tax dollar is likely to alleviate it. So grim is the prospect facing the cities that when the Superior Tea and Coffee Co. as a promotion stunt recently presented the City of Boston with $100 in reparation for the harbor pollution occasioned by the Boston Tea Party in 1773, Mayor Kevin White could only note with a trace of bitterness that, after nearly 200 years, Boston was still faced with taxation without representation...
Viet Nam long ago became the longest U.S. war, and this week another grim and numbing milestone arrives. It is from Jan. 1, 1961, that the official log of American military dead in Southeast Asia is kept, and thus with the New Year, the war enters its second decade for Americans. Over 53,000 servicemen have died, 44,167 through "action by hostile forces," 8,990 from other causes in the combat theater. They are irretrievable, but those Air Force, Navy and Army fliers still held prisoner in North Viet Nam are not. Hanoi last week released a list...
...work, devised, as he put it, to attract "boys of every age and girls of the better sort." With deadly seriousness, Prussian officers originally developed the idea in the mid-19th century to hone their tactical skills for actual warfare. Today, of course, professional war-gamers play out their grim battles in locked rooms in Washington and Moscow...
City Life, by Donald Barthelme. Wizardly fantasies, written with Kafka's purity of language and some of Beckett's grim humor...