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Smothering Grease. Late one afternoon four convicts began sawing through the one-inch bars of their solitary cells. They used smuggled hacksaw blades, smothering the noise with grease stolen from the kitchen. When the bars were held in place only by narrow slivers of steel, the desperadoes hid their blades and waited...
...camouflaged dugouts scanning the undulating landscape with field glasses, and slow-flying biplanes circle looking for suspicious movement. The Komi receive a reward for every escaped prisoner they hand over to the police. Yet prisoners still try to escape. When caught they are beaten to within an inch of their lives, sometimes stripped of their clothes and sent to solitary confinement in the bor, a prison within the prison, but with a difference: it is unheated...
After three weeks of confusion, brought on when RCA Victor chopped its LP prices by about a third (TIME, Jan. 10), the record industry has settled into a recognizable pattern. Six important labels (Capitol, Columbia, Decca, London, Mercury, MGM) are meeting Victor's prices of $3.98 a 12-inch disk, with exceptions for complete operas and other particularly expensive performances. Angel, Westminster, Vox and Cook all claim special qualities for their recordings, are hewing to the original $5.95 price line. Others have agreed on a $4.98 "suggested" price. Manhattan's Sam Goody's, the major record discount...
Docca, Capital, and Mercury have cut most prices on their 12-inch records from $5.98 to $3.98, and on 10-inch records to $2.98. RCA and Columbia made identical reductions several weeks...
Several smaller companies have "compromised" at $4.98 for 12-inch records, while Westminster, Angel, and Vox, who claim high quality performance, have not cut prices...