Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Research in Personality. Harvard fired him and an associate when their project seemed to get out of hand. Leary then moved his experiments to the vicinity of Acapulco but was expelled by the Mexican government. Early this year a Texas judge sentenced him tentatively to 30 years in jail and a $40,000 fine for transporting half an ounce of marijuana and failing to pay tax on it (he is out on bail). He still runs the International Foundation for Internal Freedom (I.F.I.F. for short), which is dedicated to making LSD and psilocybin as available as chewing...
...North Viet Nam's army was born near the city of Vinh, the son of a bourgeois landowning family that had fallen into penury. By the time he was 14, he was a member of a clandestine, anti-French sect; four years later the French clapped him in jail for political agitation. It proved a fortuitous incarceration. Behind bars he met Fellow Militant Minh Thai, who became his first wife. And the French police commissure for Vinh took a liking to the brilliant, angry young Giap, got him out of prison, and sent...
...unenforceable as Prohibition. Though brewing the stuff is delicate and complex, requiring the skills of at least a college chemistry major, it can be concocted in any laboratory containing sufficient equipment. In New York State, which for a year has had a statute making possession of LSD a jail offense, getting the drug is as easy as it once was to buy a quart of bathtub...
...fact, Nancy spent only about five hours in jail. Still fighting hard, Renga wasted no time obtaining a writ of beas corpus that freed Nancy on own recognizance until a higher court reviews her case this week. Whatever her fate, Judge Kearney has triggered public debate in California that is likely to rage for quite awhile...
...death. It reads like a drunk shouting in a pub, happy as only such a man can be, and only half-remembering, not entirely clear in his mind what he wants to say. But the infectious Behan rhythm is unmistakable, and so is the Behan tongue. Mountjoy Prison, Strangeways Jail, bouts on the Left Bank, a party for a colleen celebrating her abortion, pimping in Harry's New York Bar in Paris, painting lighthouses, doping greyhounds, springing an I.R.A. mate from a British nick-all of this is mixed together every which way like an Irish stew. The stirrer...