Word: acte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to Boston police officer Richard Conboy, the act will definitely limit hitching by college students. "We're not going to rush out and arrest people. We'll probably follow a policy of moderate enforcement-telling people to stop hitchhiking rather than bridging them in and fining them," he said. But he added, "As soon as someone gets robbed or assaulted while hitchhiking, we'll probably have to have a real crackdown...
...A.P.E.A.'s hands are tied; it can do nothing to stop this injustice. It is up to Quincy House to act on the illegal affairs of Wednesday afternoon. Granted, Dancer's Image was stripped only of the Kentucky Derby crown, whereas Tarnas would be forced to surrender the Quincy House Pancake Eating championship, But he deserves the punishment. Honest contestants must not be made victims of such trickery...
...absurd to most whites but increasingly appealing to some blacks, the Panthers conclude that the police are an occupying army. As the staff study puts it, for the Panthers "violence against the police and other agents of symbols of authority is not crime but heroism, not merely an unlawful act but a revolutionary gesture against an illegitimate government." When Huey Newton and Bobby Scale started the Black Panther Party in Oakland in October 1966, their founding statement ended with the opening section of the Declaration of Independence...
...late Vito Genovese, and since his death its rackets have been under the suzerainty of Gerardo ("Jerry") Catena. Nearly two years ago, the office of Essex County Prosecutor Joseph Lordi began to study the relationship between city officials and Mafiosi. In January, the Federal Government got into the act. A strike force of investigators from several agencies descended upon the state. Working with state officials and information developed by Lordi and the Essex County probe, it secured bribery and conspiracy indictments against two IRS officials, the head of a local contracting company and an accountant...
Their reports expose the futility of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act of 1925. Designed to limit campaign expenses, the act has never been enforced, and contains so many loopholes that congressional candidates, in effect, often ignore it. Senatorial campaigns can cost more than $1,000,000, yet the law requires a candidate to report only those expenses of which he has personal knowledge; thus many campaign committees purposely never show their man the books. The law also has a convenient provision that allows the committees to make no federal report at all if they exist in only a single state...