Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bench & Bar. In Milan, Italy, disguised behind stolen sunglasses, a natty grey flannel suit and a bogus beard made from shaving-brush bristles, Convict Francesco Boschi joined a party of visiting attorneys, calmly walked past saluting guards in the first successful break from San Vittore Prison in eleven years...
...being caught at it. The furor swelled. Britain's Labor leaders had a special reason for pressing the attack. They were embarrassed by rank-and-file criticism that they had been unmannerly to B. & K. at the famous dinner party (TIME, May 7) and were anxious to convict Sir Anthony of even cruder mistreatment of his guests. They threatened a motion to cut Eden's salary-a formal method of bringing a Minister's personal competence into question...
...hours before he was attacked last week, Riesel gave an example of his blunt, sometimes overdramatic technique on a broadcast over radio station WMCA. He attacked William De Koning Jr., head of the Operating Engineers' Local 138 on Long Island, and De Koning's father, an ex-convict labor boss. Also on the program was Emanuel Muravchik, field director of the Jewish Labor Committee, who talked of discrimination against Negro labor in the South...
Fare Game. In Cedarburg, Wis., Escaped Convict Blondon P. Becktell, one of the state's "most-wanted" men, grandly offered $5 to anybody in the tavern who would drive him to Milwaukee, found a taker in Ozaukee County Sheriff Edmund J. Bienlein, unwittingly climbed into the squad car for a ride back to prison...
...Calvin Bartlett, 28, a high-school teacher in a nearby town, as well as a clerk in a haberdashery, a hospital orderly, a liquor salesman, two interior decorators, a warehouseman, and a buyer for a women's store. Last week Ralph Cooper, 33, a shoeshine boy and ex-convict, was sentenced to life in prison. Interior Decorator Charles H. Gordon, 40, got 15 years. Two other defendants pleaded guilty to committing "infamous crimes against nature." Other arrests and hearings are expected this week...