Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fried Fish. Ervin was a forceful foe of Senator Joe McCarthy when he was indulging in his red-baiting excesses. Ervin was a principal backer of the Bail Reform Act of 1966 that allowed poor people to remain out of jail before their trials if they were reasonable risks. Over the years, he has held many little-publicized hearings looking into Government snooping and surveillance. Finally, as Watergate unfolded, it was as if his entire career were preparatory to this ultimate confrontation with a power-hungry Chief Executive. Fighting the White House on all fronts-from Executive privilege to freedom...
...conglomerates. If the fund produces the desired effect, executives of large, errant corporations may some day be forced to obey a command on the Anti-Monopoly board: "Go to court. The judge has called an extra session." Still, that is preferable to Monopoly's "Go directly to jail...
...would argue that jail is not home for Bobbie. He has spent most of his 39 years behind bars and walls of one kind or another. He was born to a convict mother in a women's reformatory. Shortly after birth he was placed in a state hospital for 14 years. During this period, he may have enjoyed, or rather suffered, a few months of freedom, and may even have spent some time with his maternal grandparents. Between 14 and 19, the record is even hazier; Bobbie's story is that he was in one institution or another...
Whenever he has been released in recent years, he has committed some crime-vagrancy, robbery, larceny-in order to get arrested again. Placed in halfway houses, he has invariably escaped. If police did not find him soon enough, he turned himself in. The punishment: jail, of course...
...heirlooms, sometimes even his children--to keep his head above water. He hitched his wife and children to his plow to replace the water buffalo, but still his debts continued to mount. And if he missed a payment on his taxes or loans, he was tossed into a colonial jail and beaten...