Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...land, along with many other areas in the North, seemed fertile ground indeed for Wallace's third-party candidacy. About 3,000 people greeted him at the airport in Illinois' capital city, many driving as far as 100 miles and waiting hours under a hot sun to hear him take out after "scummy anarchists" and pseudo intellectuals. In Springfield, Mo., he drew the biggest political crowd ever to assemble in the city square-more than 10,000 people. In Milwaukee, 5,000 filed into the municipal auditorium, along with 600 hecklers, to listen to Wallace's perfervid...
...they opposed war in general or the Viet Nam war in particular, whether they burned their draft cards or simply refused to go, each was convicted under the same clause of the Selective Service Act. Yet sentences vary enormously, depending upon the attitudes of the federal district judges who hear the cases. Some defendants are put on probation and will probably never go to prison at all; others draw the maximum sentence of five years and a $10,000 fine. Last year the average sentence was 32.1 months...
...kids seemed to take pleasure in making love in the rain-soaked woods, but this was rather tolerantly interpreted as a harmless aberration of the hippie culture. At any rate, the music was not so terrible and, besides, the hippies were rather charming. It tickled the townsfolk to hear the kids say that the Sun Dance had been the festival's moment of truth, that without it the proceedings would have been a failure...
...having a game in the park across the street," his mother remembers, "and he'd call Time!' and run into the house and play a couple of songs on the organ. Everybody would have to wait for him, and he'd play so loud they all could hear him." Says Denny: "I practiced on that organ every night. Sure, I knew a lot of people thought it was a sissified thing to do, and I beat up a lot of guys who said it out loud...
There were beautiful rules: a way to hear thunder, praise a wise man, watch a rainbow, learn of tragedy...