Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Miami Beach. Born on New York City's Lower East Side, Carbo graduated from a reformatory to become a hoodlum and reputed hit man for Murder Inc. During boxing's unsavory heyday, Carbo was a racketeer and strongman, forcing managers to fix fights. He was sent to jail for 25 years in 1961 for conspiracy and extortion, but was paroled this year because of failing health...
...seven (or eight) times by a commoner who has it in for the family. Sipping poisoned port, crashing in a punctured balloon or sinking with his ship, no one has ever kicked the bucket for so many laughs. A fickle Joan Greenwood finally lands the mass assassin in jail for the one murder he never committed. Bouncing back in his jail cell, though, he chipperly narrates us the story of raucous D'Ascoyne murders. After all, who could regret even betrayal to the tune of Greenwood's inimitable voice...
...suffer when the Government makes a mistake. I want to make sure that we get away from that, and I believe that the powerful are eager to see that done as well. It is not a deliberate thing: that the big-shot crooks go free-they never go to jail-and that the average American who violates a law has a much greater chance of going to jail. That's not right. It is not fair, and it is not decent...
...make dramatic gains in Governors' chairs. Only seven G.O.P. incumbents will be up for reelection, but fully 22 incumbent Democratic Governors must place their performance records on the line by '78. Possible G.O.P. gains include Maryland, where Marvin Mandel is still trying to stay out of jail on corruption charges and Colorado, where Richard Lamm has seen his support steadily erode...
...problem is that he is one of seven judges on the California Supreme Court. Removing a judge is difficult, removing a Supreme Court justice almost impossible. But complaints about McComb's performance have nonetheless led to the extraordinary threat (unlikely to be carried out) of his going to jail next week...