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Disruption of high schools, known as the "jailbreak"-the plan includes briefing the high schools students in advance to join the demonstrators in the streets...

Author: By Carol R. Sternhell, | Title: Must Be the Season of the War | 9/30/1969 | See Source »

...recorded these songs at California's Folsom Prison, and the echo of prisoners' applause against concrete walls adds a bitter and powerful background. A guard's announcement that "88419 is wanted in Reception" serves as sharp counterpoint to such lyrics as "The newspapers called it a jailbreak plan,/ But I know it was suicide." Most chilling song: 25 Minutes to Go, a swinging minute-by-minute account of an execution by hanging. In its own way, a sad, brilliant album...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 2, 1968 | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

...Power Prophet Stokely Carmichael started it with a wild argument at a voter registration meeting in Prattville, a reputed Ku Klux Klan stronghold ten miles from Montgomery. Stokely's target was Prattville Assistant Police Chief Kenneth Hill, who shot and killed a Negro early this year during a jailbreak attempt after a mistaken arrest for murder. When Hill showed up at the meeting, Carmichael yelled: "Take that tin badge off and I'll take care of you myself!" After getting reinforcements, the cops arrested Carmichael on the spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: Mind Over Mayhem | 6/23/1967 | See Source »

...bulletproof windshield, a radio always tuned to headquarters, and enough notches in its tailpipe to frighten the Mafia. Last week it roared out to overhaul a crook in a Jaguar fleeing Rome with $160,000 worth of paintings. Last month it ran Luciano D'Antoni, "king of the jailbreak," into a ditch and back to jail. Ace Police Driver Armando Spatafora has a chestful of medals for his daring sprints in the name of law, order and Ferrari...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 26, 1965 | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

...masterminding a successful jailbreak for a rich client every couple of years, the businessman-of-crime known as the Scarperer makes enough to live the life of a gent of leisure. This time the trick is trickier. The client is a toff London tough lodged in Dublin's Mountjoy penitentiary, and the price is 5,000 nicker. But when the limey is sprung by the Scarperer's guileful crew, he finds himself the victim of a Gaelic doublecross. The Scarperer has arranged to have him drowned and his body washed up on the coast of France. The implausible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: At His Boozy Best | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

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