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Wilkinson and his new warden, Harold Swenson, 58, a longtime associate in the federal system, quickly established a new climate. Knives and forks -hitherto forbidden as potentially dangerous weapons-joined spoons on the dining tables; fresh fruit appeared on the breakfast menu; shower rooms were placed at the end of each cell-block tier so that convicts could bathe daily instead of twice a week. Cheap transistor radios were put on sale. For the first time, maximum-security prisoners were allowed outdoors for recreation and supplied with pillows and mattresses instead of back-breaking straw ticks...
Barbara W. Tuchman, D.LET., historian. Breaking a hitherto unassailable male monopoly in the writing of military history, you produced in "The Guns of August" a model marriage of an accurate historical account written in fascinating and compelling narrative...
...next September, Chicago's started last winter, and 400-odd others are under way. This year, for the first time, the Federal Government is awarding two grants specifically in the field, to help plan model courses in Bedford, Mass., and New Orleans. Even the Roman Catholic Church, which hitherto has given the subject a wide berth, is taking the plunge. The New York Archdiocese has prepared a "Program of Family Life Education" for its 400 parishes. Catholic-run Fordham University will offer next September a series of lectures and discussions about sex in all its nonpathological aspects. Organizations devoted...
More than Good Will. Any solution will thus demand much more than ordinary good will. Still, a beginning has to be made, and many feel that the present crisis is the very time to try to start with the hitherto unsolvable plight of the refugees. However the crisis is finally resolved, Israel must somehow make peace with the Arabs if it is to survive as a nation. It cannot prosper indefinitely, or even exist indefinitely, barricaded against its neighbors. If Israel is to continue to thrive, it has to find a way to trade in peace, attract new investment...
...marked the Press's major step toward solvency and the capacity to undertake large projects. Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr., '20, banker, architect, and amateur scholar (American Colonial Printing: Materials for a History), bequeathed about a million dollars to the Press, to be used to publish "inaccessible or hitherto unpublished source material of interest in connection with the history, literature, art (including minor and useful art), commerce, customs and manners, or way of life of the Colonial and Federal periods of the United States...