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...least nine white migrant farm workers in peonage and involuntary servitude. The two blacks, both from Florida, are accused of holding the workers confined against their will last summer during peach picking around Spartanburg, S.C. They allegedly charged the whites exorbitant amounts for such things as wine, soap, razor blades and cigarettes, and forcibly prevented them from leaving until their debts were paid. According to the indictment, the blacks, with perhaps a backward bow to Simon Legree, beat one white migrant who tried to leave the camp...
...recession has affected other newspapers too," the letter pointed out, "but when we compare our performance to theirs, we do not look good." Of eleven publicly owned newspaper operations he listed in the letter, Sulzberger pegs the Times dead last in percentage of after-tax profit margin-a razor-thin 2.7%. Warned Sulzberger: "If it turns into a trend, it can jeopardize the security of our jobs...
...were freed from their cells. There is confusion over the precise sequence of events, but before order was restored Jackson was dead. So were Guards DeLeon, Paul Krasenes and Jere Graham, and two inmates, John Lynn and Ronald Kane. The throats of all five had been slashed with a razor blade imbedded in a toothbrush handle, and two of the guards had been shot. Four of the bodies were piled into Jackson's cell, perhaps saving the life of a wounded guard who was covered by the corpses. Jackson and another prisoner had dashed from the Adjustment Center, sprinted...
...razor, he matched the illustrations to paraphrases of rules and advice he has encountered in New York City schools. The result is Dante's Infernal Guide to Your School (Simon & Schuster; $2.95). Nonbook though it is, it will give many a teacher the warm feeling that somewhere, somehow, sometimes, somebody out there UNDERSTANDS...
...monopolists-an existence undisturbed by the innovations of pushy competitors. Many of the genuinely new products that have appeared since World War II have been the work of small firms. Transistor radios were first sold in large volume by Sony, then a struggling young Japanese company; stainless-steel razor blades were introduced by Wilkinson Sword, a British firm that few Americans had heard of; dry copiers were invented by an obscure company then called Haloid Xerox; the picture-in-a-minute camera was developed by Polaroid, a firm with no prior experience in photography. Similarly, the fast, low-cost oxygen...