Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until last week, Powell's most flagrant public sin was his defiance of the New York courts that have sentenced him to a 16-month jail term for contempt (he has consistently refused to pay a defamation judgment won by a Harlem Negro widow). Then, on the eve of the new session, the Negro Congressman was hit from a new direction. Reporting on a three-month investigation of the financial affairs of the House Education and Labor Committee, of which Powell is chairman, House probers concluded that...
...very vague and broad concept of national security, and under that law a thing like that letter to the President [Johnson] by you [100] student leaders [sent in December to protest the Vietnam war] would never be allowed to be printed unlses we were prepared to go to jail...
Seven of the King's supporters were killed, scores were wounded, and 170 were hustled off to jail...
...East Moss Point, Miss., Baptist Preacher Dennis McDonald paid a sudden, proselytizing visit to Mrs. Laura Pendergrass, a member of the American Sunbathing Association. She was partly naked; he was wholly shocked. All of which earned Mrs. Pendergrass a $50 fine and a suspended sentence of 20 days in jail. Equally shocked, the Mississippi Supreme Court unanimously voided her conviction. Not only did the puritanical preacher ignore a "no trespassing" sign, bristled the court, but he also stayed to gawk for 45 minutes despite his self-proclaimed "purity of mind." Worse, said the court, indecent exposure is a Mississippi crime...
...publishers, who awarded their $15,000 Thomas R. Coward Prize to this first novel, call it "unquestionably the most authentic prison novel ever written." No questions are likely. The author wrote his book while serving 6½ years of a 10-to 80-year robbery sentence in a Minnesota jail. He was also a captive researcher at the Walla Walla State Prison (4½ years, burglary) and at San Quentin (three years, robbery...