Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the FBI, the civil libertarians shrieked with rage. But these days, hardly any U.S. auto driver knows-or seems to care-about a big grey machine in Washington that clicks and whirs month in, month out, at the task of monitoring a motorist's habits on the highway...
...Mersey then resold them for $425,000 and, says the jury indictment, gave McGinnis $35,000, Benson $11,500, and Glacy $25,000. Pat McGinnis denied the charges from the Manhattan office where he now works as vice president of Highway Trailer Industries Inc., a firm that makes trucks...
...Monday, July 22, Charlie Ware stood trial on the first of three criminal indictments brought against him. The scene was the tiny city of Newton, located in Baker County, Georgia. This slight, almost fragile Negro man of about 45 faced charges of being drunk on the public highway, drunkenness on a ball park, and assault with intent to murder the Sheriff of Baker County, L. Warren Johnson. It was an historical setting. For it was here that former Sheriff Claude Screws twenty years ago dragged another Negro, Bobby Hall, by the bumper of his car into the next county...
...refused the recommendation, sentencing him to three to five years on the charge of assault with intent to murder, and to 12 months on the charge of drunkenness on the ball park. On the previous Monday, another jury had found Charlie Ware guilty of being drunk on the public highway, and the judge in that matter sentenced him to a fine of $100 or one year...
...charge on Monday was for drunkenness on the public highway. The attorneys for the defendant, Donald L. Hollowell of Atlanta, and C.B. King of Albany, Georgia, both Negroes, moved immediately to quash the indictment on grounds that the grand jury was and had always been, completely white. They charged that in the selection of the grand jury a policy of systematic exclusion of Negroes had been pursued. The attornies examined the tax collector, a Mr. Hudson, with withered hands and bird-like expression, who co-operatively gave them the information about the tax rolls. He testified that jurors are selected...