Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course of the hearing, a whole vocabulary of corruption came to light. A "juice joint" is an afterhours place where liquor is sold. A "flute" is a soda bottle filled with whisky for officers. A "flake" is an arrest made with false evidence in order to shake the man down. An "accommodation collar" is an arrest made on a minor charge in response to pressure from above for a crackdown...
Much to the displeasure of the predicters, but ever much more to the pleasure of the fans, Ivy football this season is clearly the most likely to produce weekly cardiac arrest. After only two weeks of competition, six of the eight teams are defeated. And the widest margin of victory in the entire league last Saturday was Cornell's five point edge on the Crimson. Brown and Penn's showings against Dartmouth and the inconsistency of Yale and Columbia will undoubtedly boost ticket sales for the rest of the fall throughout the league...
Responding to Carr's second call two hours after the first arrest, the police apprehended 'Charles H. Gray, 18, and one other juvenile. At the East Cambridge District Court yesterday, both pleaded not guilty and will appear in court on November 4. Gray was released on $1000 bail...
...Haron, counselor of the Malaysian Embassy in Washington, D.C. accompanied Karuna-Karan at the time of the arrest. Karuna-Karan said Ben-Haron told him that he would write a letter to the Cambridge City Council protesting the arrest...
Brigitte's escape, the reverberations of which were felt all the way to the Kremlin, unleashed a Secret Police manhunt which ended with the arrest, imprisonment, or interrogations of dozens of us. During this time Elizabeth was under constant surveillance so that when I arrived in June, 1969, she told me that she was on the point of suicide, that she had made a vain attempt to change the lock on her door to keep the police from searching her apartment and tapping her telephone. It was clear that Brigitte's escape had closed the final avenues open...