Word: bails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vast majority of sports fans in this country, soccer is a foreign game, played by men running around kicking a funny spotted bail, and leaping into the air to spear the bull with their heads. To most of the world succer is the game, a fast-moving, exciting sport that combines a great deal of the physical contact of football with the skill and finesse of hockey. Slowly, however, the game is catching on in America...
...recommendation of the Knapp Commission, which had spent a year and a half investigating corruption in the city police department, Governor Nelson Rockefeller last week announced the creation of a superprosecutor to ferret out misdeeds in all areas of the criminal justice system, including the police, judges, probation officers, bail bondsmen and prison authorities. Said Rocky: "It is absolutely unique...
...misdemeanor cases brought to trial on St. Croix last year, only 33 resulted in jail sentences. All five of the black youths charged with the massacre at Laurance and David Rockefeller's Fountain Valley Golf Course had had previous arrests and convictions and were either out on skipped bail, light bail or their own recognizance...
...have turned to Black September. It surfaced for the first time last November in Cairo, where four terrorists boldly assassinated Jordanian Premier Wasfi Tell as he entered the Cairo-Sheraton Hotel. Tell was a pro-Western Arab interested in negotiating with Israel; his killers are out of jail on bail awaiting a trial that has yet to be scheduled. Since that time, Black September teams have also murdered five Jordanians living in West Germany whom they suspected of spying for Israel; attempted to assassinate Jordan's ambassador to London; and set off damaging explosions in a Hamburg plant making...
Recess or no recess, each of the Justices must oversee the federal courts in a given area of the country. "Applications-for a stay of an order, for granting of bail and so forth-average about one per day," says Lewis Powell, "and they usually require immediate attention." When he arrived last week for a three-day visit with his daughter near Hunt, Texas, he hoped to enjoy his first nonweekend leisure time of the summer, but two large packages of court business were waiting...