Word: closets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When I went into this orphanage as a young boy," he says, "if a girl was caught even in the presence of a boy, she had her head shaved and was locked in a closet. Now that's literal fact. And as late as when I left there, in the mid-40s, if a boy and girl were caught together doing anything beyond hand-holding, they were both 'sent away' from this orphanage, the girls generally to whoever would take them and the boys were put into some kind of state reformatory...
...been tortured and threatened so intensively by the S.L.A. that she felt herself to be a psychological as well as a physical captive of her abductors. She told how, after her kidnaping on the night of Feb. 4, 1974, she had been placed in a hot, stifling closet about 5 ft. or 6 ft. long and 3 ft. wide, her hands bound, her eyes blindfolded, unable to get out even to go to the bathroom. During the first week, the only person who spoke to her was Donald DeFreeze (the self-styled General Field Marshal Cinque of the S.L.A...
...affidavit was rambling and repetitious, ungrammatical and contradictory in part: at one point, it said Patty was in the closet for "several days"; at another, for "an interminable length of time, which seemed to her to be weeks." But the account made its basic points clear enough...
Released from the closet, she was so weak that she could stand for only a minute or so before falling. Her captors told her that she had to take part in the robbery of the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco that occurred on April 15, 1974. "She was given a gun," the document declared, "and directed to stand about in the center of the bank counter. Meanwhile, one of her captors, armed with a gun which was kept pointed at her, kept an eye on her and had told her in advance that if she made one false move...
...first skeleton out of the closet this year belongs to a long-departed former GSD faculty member named Chester W. Hartman '57, who now lives in San Francisco. When the GSD declined in 1969 to reappoint him assistant professor of city planning, Hartman successfully sought formal investigation of his charges that personal and political considerations had governed the school's decision...