Penal System Deemed Failure
AP News Special examines American prisons and jails as failing to rehabilitate or protect the public. Officials including Richard W. Velde deem the system a national disgrace with overcrowded facilities and inadequate reform programs across Attica San Quentin Tombs and Orleans Parish Prison.
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Richard W. Velde
Justice Department
Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
America
Attica
New York
San Quentin
California
Fan mags carry on in Hollywood despite stars and shifts
Hollywood fan magazines endure amid industry upheaval and waning star power. Photoplay Modern Screen and Motion Picture remain leaders, while editorials defend a lingering moral line in cover stories about Liz Taylor, Debbie Reynolds, and rumored affairs.
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Hollywood
Andy
Ethel
Ryan O'Neal
Barbara Parkins
Lucile Ball
Nancy
Modern Screen
Motion Picture
Kennedys
Jack Kennedy
Helen Weller
Caroline Kennedy
Debbie Reynolds
Housing Indicates Furniture Boom
Housing gains pace with more than two million new units annually. The furniture industry readies for a major upturn as builders push completions and retailers anticipate higher demand nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Officials To Attend Meeting In Wichita Next Week
City officials led by Mayor Vesta Lightfoot and Commissioner Clyde Kile will attend the League of Kansas Municipalities convention in Wichita, with Kenneth Sanborn and John Schultz as alternates. The gathering includes talks by U.S. Senator Robert Dole and sessions of associations of city officials. The city commission meeting is rescheduled to Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Memorial Building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
League of Kansas Municipalities
Vesta Lightfoot
Clyde Kile
Kenneth Sanborn
John Schultz
Sanborn
League
Bonnie Moffatt
Lige Matlock
Bob Bunting
Richard Ashley
Robert Pennington
Floyd Heath
al Guiot
Recreation and Parks
U.S
Robert Dole
Memorial Building
Future menus spark debate among chefs and nutritionists
Johns Hopkins expert Dr George C Graham predicts future diets built on hand foods like peanut butter and pizza, prompting strong reactions from Julia Child and other food authorities. Some fear loss of haute cuisine while others warn of cost and rationing, with one chef forecasting pills for most by 25 years hence. Nearby Oswego seeks a new town doctor after local physicians depart or are injured, prompting citizen action to hire another physician for its 2,200 residents.
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Chase Manhattan Bank
Chase
Velde
Alcatraz
Justice Department
Mississippi
Parchman State Prison
Parchman
California
New York
Purgatory
George C. Graham
Johns Hopkins University
Moore-Betty
Graham Kerr
Bournemouth
England
Kerr
Parsons Westgate Homes Faces FHA Foreclosure Risk
Reverend T Edward Lindemann says Parsons Westgate Homes an FHA financed project sponsored by St. John s Episcopal Church faces possible foreclosure as FHA subsidy ended. Tenants pay about $4 000 to $4 200 monthly, 71 of 100 units occupied amid high turnover and community disparagement.
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Parsons — Westgate Homes, Inc
Parsons
Federal Housing Administration
T. Edward Lindemann
St. John's Episcopal Church
The
FHA
Westgate
Lindemann
Mobile Art Gallery Sets Parsons Visit for Picasso Works
Parsons will host a Wichita Art Museum mobile gallery for three days in late October. Superintendent Henry T. Norris announced 25 works by Pablo Picasso and contemporaries will be on display, highlighting major 20th century artists.
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Parsons
Wichita Art Museum
Henry T. Norris
Pablo Picasso
Authors Frequently Target Of Gratuitous Remarks
HAL BOYLE finds readers press authors with tired jokes about sex money and looks. He catalogs questions from publishers and fans about writing fame and lifestyle.
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New York City
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New Orleans
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AP Business Analyst
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London
Ken Russell
MGM
Nancy Anderson
John Wayne
Lucille Ball
Robert Young
Barbara Stanwyck
Marlo Thomas
Rock Hudson
Shirley Jones
Dustin Hoffman
Nixon
American Correctional Association
Warren E. Burger
Atty
Ramsey Clark
Clark
By Louise Cook
Graham
Julia Child
Maurice Moore
Betty
Oswego
A. P. Burgess
Dale Perley
Chetopa
Oswego Hospital
Parsons Osteopathic
B. L. Hulsman
Parsons Housing Project
Hal Boyle
Ernest Hemingway
Harry
Public Library
Mr. Inkwell
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