Word: doors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...each binge was a "voluntary exercise of his will." Powell, said the psychiatrist, was strongly-but not overwhelmingly-compelled to continue drinking once he started. Marshall also worried about what would happen if the court forbade the jailing of drunks. "The picture of the law's 'revolving door' of arrest, incarceration, release and rearrest is not a pretty one," he admitted, but he could see no satisfactory alternative. Even doctors critical of arresting drunks cannot agree on any treatment that would provide more of a cure than simple drying out in jail...
Cautious Hairsplitting. Speaking for the four dissenters, Justice Abe Fortas insisted that the court should not countenance a revolving jailhouse door for drunks, either. It was cruel and inhuman punishment, he said, to impose a criminal penalty on an alcoholic "who cannot resist the constant excessive consumption of alcohol and does not appear in public by his own volition...
...walk in that door 1 can get up off my knees...
...raised by his grandfather, a gravedigger in Vickery, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. But "our house was about two miles out in the country," he says, "and we had it rent free. It was nice out there. We even had a lake behind the house." Next door was a country club; in between was a fence, and little Lee turned a tidy profit on that happy coincidence-collecting golf balls that strayed over the fence, selling them back to club members. "I cleared maybe $10 a day." Combining pleasure with business, he took up the game himself- playing with...
Versus the Draft In Welksley, Mass., last week, FBI agents walked through the open door of the local Unitarian-Universalist Church armed with an arrest warrant. The man they wanted was Richard W. Scott, a 20-year-old soldier who had deserted his unit as a war resister, and they had come to the right place to find him. The Rev. Robert Gardiner, with the approval of his congregation, had just granted the youth the ancient right of church sanctuary. It was a symbolic gesture, of course, since neither Scott nor his protectors tried to stop the FBI from taking...