Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Happily, the prison has never had any trouble with the gamblers. For one thing, only card games are permitted, and only cons with records of good behavior can be appointed dealers. They "buy" a table for 75 cents a week, split the take with the prison, which uses its share for the recreation fund and for the purchase of eyeglasses for needy inmates. Players draw "brass" (scrip) from their personal accounts (maximum $20 a week), never handle real cash, since an accumulation of "street money" might give a prisoner big ideas about escaping. Gambling hours in the small, dim, rock...
...conquest" but added that Marxists could still recognize "liberating wars"-precisely the label Red China would apply to an attack on Formosa. From Washington last week, U.S. Secretary of State Herter and Under Secretary Douglas Dillon moved quickly to plug this loophole (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), warned that Moscow must share responsibility for Peking's acts...
...Jake Arvey), who hit Cuba last spring with a plan to join the Castro government in a $500,000 partnership to scrape the guano deposits from caves in Pinar del Rio and Matanzas and ship it abroad as fertilizer. Castro decided that the commodity was much too valuable to share. In turning over exclusive control of bat guano to sprawling INRA, Castro noted that INRA Director Captain Antonio Núñez Jiménez is an expert spelunker, just the man to get in there and get the merchandise moving...
...Germany's competitors the bidding up of German real wages is a relief. While Germany has boomed, the unions have been slow to demand higher wages. Now that German industry is being forced to share more of its prosperity with its workers, part of the trade advantage that has raised Germany's gold and dollar reserves past $5 billion will be lost...
...acute shortage of secretaries is forcing many University offices to share receptionists and hire part-time undergraduate typists, Nicholai F. Wessell, associate director of personnel, said yesterday...