Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mean John Dean. Icy John Dean.Nerveless John Dean, sending former colleagues off to jail, pushing a President toward resignation, all in a lifeless, imperturbable monotone. The image from the Watergate TV hearings and cover-up trials has already etched itself into history. The inner reality, it now appears, was very different. The conspirator who turned against his fellow criminals trembled at times at the thought of his lonely assault upon Richard Nixon, John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman. He climbed into his Scotch bottle in search of soothing stupor often enough to worry about becoming an alcoholic. He fretted over looking...
...were times during the testimony when a date would slip out of focus and "the whole edifice would crumble." There were times when he wanted to forget everything. Once he lashed out at the prosecutors, telling his lawyer: "Don't those bastards know I'm going to jail? I can't keep churning this Watergate crap out. I'm tired of turning my head on and off like a light bulb." Listening to the tapes soothed him. "I could see the meetings in my mind; my senses synchronized, I floated back through time...
Talks in the library workers walkout broke off at the beginning of the month; no new talks are currently scheduled. The arrested students face up to a year in jail and fines of $500 on the charge of obstructing a public thoroughfare; in addition, they will come up for an internal hearing before the University Committee on Student Affairs, possible sometime next week. The internal proceeding, which some students say they hope to turn into a "circus with as many rings as possible," could result in suspension from Brown...
...political sophistication that usually makes urban machines work. He has no allies, contacts or organizations. Former Boston Mayor James Michael Curley is his idol, he says, and Dapper claims to have been a good friend of Curley's. Representative Frank, perhaps remembering that Curley was once elected from a jail cell, commented, "Curley was a pretty indiscriminate fellow, so it's quite likely...
Fredie was found guilty a week and a half later, and sentenced to thirty days in jail. Soon after the guilty verdict, Fredie resigned from his University post. He has appealed the charge...