Word: bail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young lady who had refused bail and been imprisoned here for 16 days, refusing to eat the food sent in to us by a segregated restaurant, went out on bond. She returned an hour later as a "visitor," her arms laden with hamburgers and coffee, her steps somewhat wavering from her fast and her eyes shining. Tucked among her gifts to us was the latest issue of TIME, with the painting of Rev. King under the banner: Man of the Year...
...Bail for the three was set at $1000 a piece. However, according to Julian Bond, spokesman for SNCC, every local bonding company approached so far originally agreed to write the bond but subsequently refused when it learned of the students' affiliation with SNCC. "We have the choice of putting up the leaving them there, and we certainly don't intend to leave them there," said Bond...
...seemed to know how to lower them properly. The second boat down the side banged heavily against the ship, and then tipped over and spilled its cargo of passengers into the sea. Other boats had no bungs to plug drains, and survivors had to bail frantically, ripping off clothes that they could stuff into the open bung holes. In the panic on deck, most of the boats, each of which had room for 75 passengers and ten crew, were lowered only partly filled. The rest of the passengers went down the side on ropes or simply leaped from the deck...
...feel wonderful," beamed Jack Ruby, 52, after he appeared before Dallas Judge Joe B. Brown for a bail-bond hearing in the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald. And that was the tone of the whole affair. Judge Brown had outraged Ruby's defense attorney, Melvin Belli, by ruling that TV cameras would be out of court when Ruby comes to trial in February. But then the judge went ahead and hired his own public relations firm. "Decorum will be maintained," trumpeted the first release...
Died. Marcellus Hartley Dodge, 82, longtime (1920-1955) chairman of Remington Arms Co.; in Madison, N.J. Voted the "luckiest" member of the 1903 Columbia graduating class after inheriting his grandfather's $60 million arms fortune, Dodge used $300,000 of it to bail out the floundering New York Times in 1905, two years later, at 26, married Ethel Geraldine Rockefeller, thus adding an estimated $70 million to the family purse, all of which he shrewdly employed in the stock market and in building Remington into one of the nation's biggest small-arms manufacturers. There are no children...