Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reagans have a 305-acre ranch at Lake Malibu, where they raise Thoroughbreds, and a house in Pacific Palisades, with a pool, a view of Los Angeles, and a monumental assemblage of electric gadgets and appliances-a reward for Reagan's duties on "the mashed-potato circuit" as a lecturer for General Electric...
...indicted only for "assault and battery," a charge that Alabama Attorney General Richmond Flowers termed ridiculous. As the trial began, Flowers requested dismissal of the case, so as to leave open the possibility that Coleman might be rein-dieted on a charge of assault with intent to kill. Circuit Judge T. Werth Thagard was only too happy to comply -dismissing the case "with prejudice," meaning that he did not want to hear it again in any event. (In the unlikely possibility that Coleman is reindicted, another judge can preside...
...totally bare cells, claimed Jordan, he was kept naked for almost eleven days, deprived of heat, light, bedding, ventilation, medical treatment and the most basic sanitary facilities. He appealed to San Francisco's U.S. District Judge George B. Harris, who thereupon indignantly issued his circuit's first federal injunction against state prison officials. Impressed with Jordan's "clear and convincing" testimony, which vividly described cells caked with human excrement, Judge Harris saw a patent violation of the Eighth Amendment's guarantee against "cruel and unusual punishment." He ordered California to clean up strip cells in keeping...
...amounts of capital effectively and productively." U.S. Under Secretary of State George Ball, who is on the verge of retirement, replied: "No nation, when it is confronted with a serious balance of payments deficit, can afford to see the funds it transfers work their way through the international monetary circuit and end up in a gold drain-an increase in its payments deficit-and ultimately pressure to adopt restrictive domestic policies. This point is critical to the position of my country." The U.S., said Ball, will increase its contribution only if others share the burden...
Handy's discipline derives from his classical training at San Francisco State College, where he is a few credits shy of a master's degree in music education. When he first unlimbered on the jazz circuit in 1958, he was a timid conformist, but a nine-month tour with Charlie Mingus' combo changed that. Midway in a number, the burly, quick-tempered Mingus would peer fearsomely from behind his bass and roar, "Go on, go on, blow something!" Recalls Handy: "I was too scared not to play something startling...