Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...listing a net worth of $181,000 and describing himself as "a man of modest means." But other Representatives object to disclosing their personal finances, even though the need for a strong code was underscored last week by the sentencing of former Democratic Representative Richard Hanna of California to jail for six to 30 months for conspiring to defraud the U.S. He was accused of accepting more than $200,000 from Rice Broker Tongsun Park as part of Park's effort to buy congressional support for South Korea...
...named Outstanding Young Man by the Junior Chamber of Commerce in his home town of Madison Heights, a Detroit suburb. Two years later he was elected mayor. The father of five and a practicing attorney, Geralds attracted attention by sponsoring a town ordinance that made parents liable to jail sentences or fines if their negligence contributed to criminal acts by their children. In 1974 Democrat Geralds parlayed his reputation for rectitude into a seat in the state house of representatives, which he won comfortably; he was re-elected two years later...
Harvard's Alex Vik carded an 86, marred by a ten on the 16th hole. His drive bounded into the woods, putting him "in jail." He took a lusty cut with his second shot, decimating a colony of beetles and cutting a yard-long swath through a dandelion patch in the process. The stung ball scooted into the clear, hit a rock and ricocheted skyward, landing well behind the bewildered...
...August 1, 1976, 18 Clamshell people marched onto the Seabrook site. They were arrested, but three weeks later, 180 followed. Last April 30 the marchers numbered over 2000. Of them, 1414 were arrested and put into New Hampshire armories, where a self-imposed jail solidarity kept hundreds for almost two weeks, until a mass release was arranged...
This year, May Day has particular significance for our brothers and sisters in southern Africa. We should pause for a moment and think of Nelson Mandela, the black South African leader, sitting in his jail cell, in the 15th consecutive year of his imprisonment, and of the all-too-many people who are jailed with...