Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brought home that I had become an utter wastrel, but on Christmas morning I remembered a more severe case than myself, and phoned Boston to find out where Namo was, and what I could do for him. And so, when Namo awakened on Christmas Day in the Charles Street Jail, it was a candygram from me that first greeted...
...thousands of citizens marched on the square, but were repulsed by militiamen. The incident erupted into the most remarkable public demonstration in Peking in 30 years: before it ended, angry marchers had set fire to automobiles and a nearby building. Countless protesters were bloodied and hustled off to jail. Mao was outraged by the affair and blamed it on Teng; the Chairman insisted that Teng, a protege of Chou's, had orchestrated the demonstration to enhance his own position. Mao pronounced the demonstrators "counterrevolutionaries" and purged Teng as a potential heir apparent in favor of the relatively unknown...
Farber spent 40 days in jail after refusing to turn over materials he gathered in the case of a New Jersey doctor accused of murder...
...Thevis, 46, who once described his Atlanta-based $100 billion-a-year empire as "the GM of pornography." Thevis controlled one of the nation's largest networks of adult bookstores, X-rated movie theaters, and peep-show machines. Seven months before, Thevis had escaped from a minimum-security jail in New Albany, Ind., while serving 8½ years for arson and interstate transportation of obscene material. He was held without bail; police also arrested a companion, Anna Jeanette Evans, 40, who was waiting for him outside the bank, and charged her with aiding a known fugitive. In Thevis...
...former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz into early retirement, printed an unflattering profile of est's Werner Erhard that Esquire had found too hot to handle, demolished liberal myths about the Black Panthers, grabbed the first interviews with Abbie Hoffman on the lam and Bill and Emily Harris in jail, found environmental horrors lurking in microwave ovens, drinking water and aerosol cans, and helped reopen the case of Peter Reilly, the young Connecticut man unjustly convicted of killing his mother. The magazine's last-page "Final Tribute" column was the last, often eloquent word on such endangered species...