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Even the fat comfortable merchants of Teheran felt some of the same muted excitement. They knew the old Shah as a cantankerous man with an unpredictable temper, given to seizing land, imposing high taxes, throwing honest but dissenting businessmen into the big prison on the Ghulek Road north of Teheran. The prison was a poor place to live, all too good a place to die. Under Mohammed, the merchants of Teheran hoped, things might be different...
Vichy held up to the light last week one of the fruits of its collaboration with Germany, announced that Adolf Hitler had released one-fourth of his French war prisoners-500,000 men. It was plain that in choosing those to be freed Hitler had intended: 1) to help France grow strong again for New Order purposes; 2) to rid his prison camps of disabled prisoners who were a nuisance. Those released included medical-corps members, fathers who had four children when mobilized, some farm workers, veterans of World War I, members of families of those who had volunteered...
...photographers convened for the war games in Louisiana. A good many of them were veterans of the maneuver circuit, having followed the Armies in preliminary exercises in Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana. Some were veterans of the real thing-among them U.P.'s Richard Hottelet, fresh from a German prison, and Leon Kay, who saw the Nazi invasions of the Low Countries and the Balkans; CBS's tall, handsome Eric Sevareid, who arrived from London with a group of British observers...
Visitas conyugales are Mexico's solution to the formidable problem of sex in prison. They not only prevent homosexuality, whose dank infestation in U.S. prisons alarms intelligent penologists, but also often change the entire behavior of a convict and leave him less vengeful and obsessed upon his release. U.S. prisons, at least officially, do not have the custom...
...Cuernavaca Prison 50 to 60% of the prisoners use the privilege, which is granted on Thursday or Sunday. Two small rooms, furnished only with a petate, or straw mat, are available: if a man's serape is hung in the doorway, the room is busy. The women need not be married to the prisoners but must not be syphilitic. Sometimes unmarried convicts take a fancy to girls among the prison visitors, says Sociologist Hayner, "and are able to make the proper arrangements." At Morelia about 13%, and at Guadalajara about 20% of the men enjoy visitas conyugales, which...