Word: jails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prostitutes and the pimps who live on their earnings, has nothing to say about the other subject raised by Wolfenden: the prevalence of homosexuality. The maximum ?2 ($5.60) fine for prostitution, which has been on the books since 1840, would now be increased to ?25 and three months in jail, and no longer would a cop have to prove that the girls were "annoying" anyone...
Second Try? In Toronto, Motorist Luca Bratevich went to jail for drunken driving and backing through a red light...
...burglaries," the pretty blonde told Kansas City police, "and I couldn't have done it without a shot. When you're on that stuff, you just don't care. I was even a prostitute for three months." The "stuff," explained Sharon Pollard, 21, and now in jail for smuggling a revolver to her jailed boy friend and partner in crime, comes from a 75? inhaler intended only for clearing stuffy noses. But if its active chemical ingredient, amphetamine, is dissolved and injected into a vein, it packs a wallop. Last week the abuse of amphetamine was growing...
Such is the judge George Wallace must face late this month-and in Alabama's troubled times, Frank Johnson may have to punish his old friend with a fine of up to $1,000 and a jail sentence of up to six months...
...Congo, many Belgiums feared that their government may have waited too long to make its offer. In Léopoldville Belgian paratroopers still patrolled the streets, hundreds of whites are keeping revolvers handy, and as long as the city's three top burgomasters (all black) remained in jail, disorder might strike at any time. Warned the Gazet van Antwerpen: "With oppressed hearts we wonder whether the people who yesterday stood against each other as enemies will be able to collaborate...