Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...types, Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper) who have managed to smuggle in a large quantity of cocaine, and, having bought two Harleys, are heading for Mardi Gras to celebrate. The two meet up with George Hanson (Jack Richardson), a drunken Southern lawyer, while in a Deep South Jail. Hanson, yearning for some legendary whorehouse and dominated unto middle-age by his Daddy, decides to accompany them to New Orleans. But camped out one night they are set upon by Mississippi rednecks and Hanson is bludgeoned to death. Billy and Wyatt proceed on to Mardi Gras, make a sentimental...
Mike Ferber, Bill Hunt, and the community feeling in the Resistance were probably more convincing than the war as reasons to hand in your draft cards. Almost everyone later decided that there were better places to fight the war than jail. The people who didn't receive 4-F's or 1-Y's took back their 2-S's. It was easy to say that the whole strategy of the Resistance about filling the jails to end the war was wrong. It was good to have a handy rationalization around...
...regime's security forces have cracked down hard on the underground. Thirty-one suspected royalists, ranging from general to captain, are in prison on charges of trying to subvert the army. More than 100 Patriotic Fronters and other Communists received long jail terms. Sometimes the inexperience of the resistance workers betrays them. Police are waiting to interview a young Athens professor who is recovering from injuries caused last month by the explosion of a bomb that he was assembling. In his cellar, the police found twelve plastiques. The 13th was the unlucky...
...welfare and her former lover. Though the defense counsel argued that being pregnant when on welfare was the woman's real offense, the court gave her a suspended sentence of six months and placed her on probation for two years. Her lover was sentenced to three months in jail...
Real Losen. Five ABC officials, including founders James Walsh, 52, and Robert D. Hayes, 68, were convicted by an Orange County jury after a five-week trial on charges ranging from conspiracy to grand theft; three others pleaded guilty. None received jail sentences, but they were placed on probation for up to three years and given fines as high as $7,000. Hayes and Walsh, among others, said that they would appeal on the ground that no criminal intent was involved, but their careers as tax consultants have already been ruined. ABC is virtually out of business...