Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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For years, it has been an open secret that Indian stars declare only a fraction of their true salaries, and are paid the rest in "black money." In swift raids in Bombay, the revenuers picked up $777,000. Biggest haul came from the home of Actress Mala Sinha, where $250...
By the time state police, sheriff's officers and cops from neighboring communities arrived, the mob had swelled to 1,000 and the riot was in full swing. Negroes swarmed into a main street, smashing windows and headlights of passing cars. A white man, Clarence Stermer, 59, suffered a...
It Can Be Done. The thesis of Hermand's book was too revolutionary even for the left-wing Catholic weekly Temoignage Chretien (Christian Witness), which bitterly assailed it. Yet Paris' Le Monde gave the book extensive coverage, while Combat and other papers came openly to Hermand's...
As Kamisar points out, the Supreme Court changed all that in 1961 after Cleveland police broke into the home of a woman named Dollree Mapp on a tip that it contained a bombing suspect and "a large amount of policy paraphernalia." Finding neither, the cops put her in handcuffs and...
In sustaining her appeal (Mapp v. Ohio), the Supreme Court ordered every state to obey the exclusionary rule. At the same time, says Kamisar, Minneapolis police were quick to blame the decision for a 10% upsurge in local burglaries. Only after the argument dwindled, and the cops got back to...