Word: courting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact that I was an addict when arrested. I kicked my habit cold turkey. After waiting three months for trial, I was physically shed of my habit before trial (mentally shed is questionable yet). I was arrested (for possession) with 17½ grms. of heroin, tried in federal court, and sentenced to 40 years in prison. Vito Genovese, who possibly oversaw the distribution of 17½ Ibs. of heroin, who was only commercially interested, when tried in April received 15 years. (Harsher penalties only get the applause of the "big city boys" who distribute narcotics, because the stiffer the penalty...
...paying the price, and will until 1999, but perhaps some day someone now following the jagged trail that brought me before the court will get a break-instead of broke...
Except for its decisions on school desegregation, the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren has come under no heavier fire than for its rulings in the prickly area of internal security. Time and again, in apparently sweeping opinions, the court threw its weight on the side of individuals involved in security cases-to the point where many a sober-minded observer feared that the public interest was being jeopardized. But last week, in a pair of 5-4 decisions, the Supreme Court gave clearer focus to two of the most controversial of its earlier security-case rulings, brought...
Compulsion. A tight, suspenseful film about the heinous crime and the court trial of Leopold and Loeb...
...county supervisors - who may be imitated by other arch-segregationist Virginia communities - said they did not act last week "in defiance of any law or of any court." Legally, they may be right: the schools under court order to integrate will not exist. Morally, their position had an odd sound: "Above all, we do not act with hostility toward the Negro people of Prince Edward County." The Richmond Times-Dispatch (circ. 134,360) cheered: "Your firm determination not to have mixed schools in your county is understood and supported throughout Virginia. Do not let yourselves be pushed around. Continue...