Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...angry men roving the streets (see following story). In Savannah, Ga., ignoring appeals for caution voiced by responsible leaders, Negroes broke into a window-smashing, tire-slashing rampage that lasted sporadically for two nights and a day. The outbreak began when 1,000 Negroes marched downtown to protest the arrest of a Negro leader. A young New York Negro named Bruce Gordon, a member, oddly enough, of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, urged the crowd to march on the city jail. Police moved in with tear gas and fire hoses. The following night, Negroes lay down in the streets...
...Intransigent Radical party. At the last minute, the front found most of its choices for the electoral college disqualified by the army. From his exile in Madrid, Perón told his followers that since they were legally required to vote, they should cast blank ballots; under house arrest in the Argentine mountain resort town of Bariloche, Frondizi did the same. Together, they were supposed to control 40% of the voters...
...senior Russian intelligence officer who defected to the West 18 months ago, and had spent the intervening time being thoroughly pumped by U.S. and British agents. One reported result: the revelation that British Newsman H.A.R. Philby was indeed the "third man" who enabled Spies Burgess and Maclean to escape arrest and flee to Russia in 1951. Last winter Philby, too, slipped behind the Iron Curtain just ahead of pursuing MI-5 agents. Although the government had made quite a show of asking the British press not to print the story, the authorities had in fact leaked it. Laborites charged that...
Ugly Shouts. Moments after Blake and his group entered the grounds, a park owner stopped them, read the trespass law aloud. The marchers remained silent-but they did not leave the premises. Said Chief Lally: "You can leave or you can be arrested." Still the group was silent. Police moved in, placed them under arrest, led them politely to a waiting patrol wagon...
According to Steven H. Johnson '64, chairman of Tocsin, there were practically no violent incidents during the demonstration, although several protestors had to be carried off to jail and were subsequently charged with resisting arrest...