Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demands of Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, the ear-splitting hot-rods of white rhythm 'n' blues, also known as blue-eyed soul. "Sock it to me, baby, gimme, gimme, gimme," screams Mitch, sounding pretty clear about what he wants. "I'd rather go to jail than to see you get away," he persists. The boys used to call themselves the Young Degenerates...
...boycott, had begun to voice. And they agreed to call off the boycott until negotiations could be arranged with the administration on the following Monday. Late Sunday afternoon, however, the administration filed charges against Lee Otis Johnson, for disturbing the peace. He was taken to the county jail, and quickly released. Arguing that the administration had "played dirty," the Friends of SNCC resumed the boycott Monday morning, and released a far more comprehensive list of demands, including increasing teachers' salaries, changing women's curfew hours (freshmen must be in every night at 9 p.m.), improving the food in the cafeterias...
...seats) helped enact 20 consumer-protection bills and a traffic-safety measure. Throughout the Deep South, Daylight Saving Time is no longer rejected in favor of "God's time." Even in Tennessee, where it used to be a misdemeanor punishable by a $500 fine and ten days in jail to display a clock with Daylight Time, clocks have been set ahead an hour...
Hiqh Treason. The junta arrested a handful of youths in Piraeus for scribbling antigovernment slogans on walls and sentenced six persons in Larissa to jail terms of 13 months to five years for speaking unfavorably of Greece's new masters. It scheduled for this week the trial of one of its star prisoners, Leftist Andreas Papandreou, 48, who is accused of conspiring to commit high treason as the alleged leader of the Aspida plot. There was also an indication that Andreas' father, former Premier George Papandreou, might be brought to trial for treason. An approved rightist daily...
...reservist in an Illinois Special Forces unit, who wore his green beret and Class A uniform while he burned his draft card in Central Park before newspaper cameras. FBI agents arrested Rader last week at his Evanston, Ill., apartment, handcuffed him before they stuck him in a Chicago jail cell overnight. Though Rader was released the next day on $1,000 bond, raised by friends at Northwestern, he faced a possible five-year prison sentence and $10,000 fine for burning his draft card, and a possible six-month sentence for wearing his uniform without official approval...