Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Letter of the Law. In San Diego, cornered two days after he took $6 and a $3,000 station wagon from a motel garage, Ex-Convict Conrad Hansen amiably handed over his toy pistol to police, explained that he had used it in the holdup because ex-convicts are not allowed to carry real guns...
Return Engagement. In Rhinelander, Wis.. awaiting sentence for robbing the home of Phillip Richert, ex-Convict Carl R. Thompson. 31, broke out of jail, was recaptured and sentenced to two terms for burglary after Richert caught him in his home a second time...
...convicts broke out to the main gate before being beaten back. ¶1934: nine convicts and a guard died in "The Lincoln Day Break." ¶1952: a loo-ft. tunnel was discovered shortly after prisoners were given a dinner by the warden for digging no tunnels during the previous year. ¶1953: a convict-made bomb killed Prison Manager Albert Gruber. A two-day riot and $500,000 fire killed one prisoner, destroyed five buildings. One-quarter of the prisoners (400 men) held a "sleep strike" after using barbiturates to go on a mass bender...
...vaccine has given some immunity against the virus infection to 73% of convict-volunteers so far tested. Probable next step: tests this winter on 10,000 Army volunteers. However, a vaccine against only one of the 13 known, closely related viruses would have no value for general prescription use, so the researchers have high hopes that they will soon achieve similar success with two of its kin, Types 4 and 7. Then a polyvalent vaccine would be practicable. But PHS researchers sadly admit that there is still nothing in sight of any earthly use to ward off the common cold...
Soon jeeps and trucks, bulldozers and tank trucks were trundling up the rugged mountain roads. The Forest Service called in National Guardsmen and volunteer crews from prisons (including the "Stanislaus Hotshots" who fought twelve forest fires without a single convict trying a single escape). It flew in 225 Zuni and Hopi Indian fire fighters, mobilized in all 1,200 men from foresters to migrant fruit pickers. Crew bosses hustled them through smoke and heat to the fire line, 40 miles long...