Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Teamsters' Boss Jimmy Hoffa has an Achilles' heel, the Justice Department has yet to find it. The department has brought him to trial six times within the past decade. Twice it has won convictions. Yet elusive Jimmy has yet to spend a day in jail as a result. And he still has unchallenged command of the biggest (1,750,000 members), most powerful union...
Last week the Supreme Court agreed to review Hoffa's conviction on charges of tampering with a Nashville jury in a 1962 federal trial, for which he was sentenced in 1964 to eight years in jail and a $10,000 fine. Though the Teamsters' lawyers had questioned the conviction on 21 points, the court limited its review to their contention that Edward Partin, a longtime crony of Hoffa who acted as a part-time guard at his hotel during the Nashville trial, had been released from jail in Louisiana to spy on Hoffa for the Government. Partin...
...this reluctance, in fact, that Western authorities have been cracking down hard on Westerners seeking to assist in the escapes of East Berliners. Last week three West Germans who helped East Germans dressed in U.S. uniforms make it through the Wall to the West were rewarded with stiff jail sentences by West German courts, and two U.S. soldiers who were also involved drew demotions and hard labor sentences. Additional punishment: deductions of $83 a month from the new privates' paychecks...
...years old, and was first arrested for drunkenness at age 24," Joe Driver told North Carolina Superior Court Judge Raymond Mallard. "Since then I have spent two-thirds of my life in jail for drinking. Yes, sir, I consider myself an alcoholic. I want to do something about it, but it don't look like I can." The judge had a question: "If I counted correctly, would it be right that you have been up for being publicly drunk 203 times?" The number of offenses made no difference to Driver, who had stopped counting long since. But it made...
Greene has taken his readers there, or somewhere very like it, many times before. In The Power and the Glory, it was the Mexican jail cell that swallowed up the whisky priest. In A Burnt-Out Case, it was the jungle leper colony that drew Querry, the architect who has lost the very capacity to feel. In Brighton Rock, it was that violent urban netherworld where hopelessness is almost a beatitude...