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ABOLISH FIXED SENTENCES. "It takes a Superior correctional counselor to inspire in an inmate a desire for self-improvement when he faces several hundred years of confinement," observes Fred Wilkinson, Missouri's Chief of Corrections, with some hyperbole. Indeterminate sentences have been used in California for years. Sometimes, as in the case of George Jackson, they have had the effect of absurdly prolonging prison terms because parole examiners did not like a convict's attitude. But the system would work, it has been argued, if inmates were regularly reviewed by a panel of psychologists as well as parole...
...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 steelmaking process was first tried...
...This one will be short and simple," Colonel Wilkinson R. Folk told the gathering of 22 persons. "I won't go into the shameful events that led to the end of the program here. You might say that's 'academic...
...final minutes, a combination of great defensive play by Dover and Jean Wilkinson, plus the Bruins' inability to retain possession of the ball for over four seconds without a turnover saved the Crimson...
...meantime Dover and Wilkinson were making sure the Bruins never got the ball past midcourt. The Bruins never could recover and were forced to foul. "If we had been down by two we could've set up but behind by four all you can do is hope," Alainro lamented...