Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legal assistance. Victor Rabinovitz, a prominent left-wing lawyer, has agreed to send up a man from his firm, Mungo says, whenever a client of the Group faces trial. So far, two have been put on trial for refusing induction and one of them has already been sent to jail...
...rise silently when Mario comes in." A lot of them did-though silence was a curious tribute to pay Mario Savio, 23, noisiest voice of the Free Speech Movement that raised such a commotion for two years at the University of California. Savio earned himself a 120-day jail sentence from the Berkeley court for trespassing, resisting arrest and refusal to disperse, fought the rap unsuccessfully for two years through higher courts (the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review it), and last week marched off to the pokey after taking a bite of his farewell gift from friends: a chocolate...
...acre expanse of farmland: a white 1830 Greek Revival-style house designed to display the paintings and furnishings from his parents' Manhattan apartment. (They died in 1960.) The new building joins eight Early American houses, eight barns and sheds, a general store, meetinghouse, schoolhouse, jail, smithy, covered bridge, railroad station, steam locomotive, lighthouse, sawmill, hunting lodge, and the 892-ton Lake Champlain sidewheeler Ticonderoga. Most of the buildings had been dismantled, brick by brick and board by board, transported from their original sites in and near New England, and rebuilt at Shelburne...
...give in." When a mob of war veterans stormed I.W.W. head quarters in Centralia, Wash., Wesley Everest was cornered and caught. He sneered: "You haven't got the guts to hang a man in the daytime." He was right: the mob came back that night, snatched him from jail and hanged his bullet-riddled body from a bridge...
...major forms of protest that have evolved this year, the summer organizing project is likely to have a far more extensive political effect that the draft resistance; it is much easier for the average student dissenter to speak against the war than to risk jail or permanent expatriation as the price of dissidence. Also, most of those who have pledged not to serve in this war have not limited themselves to this kind of protest--and will actively support Vietnam Summer...