Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crawfordville, Ga. (pop. 786), the hungry wayfarer stays hungry. The town's only eating place, which used to be rather less exclusive than the Taliaferro county jail across the street, has changed its name from Liberty Café to Bonner's Private Club Inc. In Jackson, Miss., the Belmont Restaurant, long a favorite downtown luncheon spot for state officials, lawyers and businessmen, has become the Belmont Club Inc., boasts an electrically operated door, a membership committee-and the same old menu. Maylie's Restaurant, for 90 years a noontime hangout for New Orleans judges, lawyers and city...
...Congress movement. The Nehrus' mansion was a center for illegal Congress Party gatherings. Recalls Indira: "The most important meetings were on our lawn." Reprisals by India's British rulers were harsh, and often Indira watched one or both of her parents or grandfather being marched off to jail. A visitor to the Nehru home in those days remembers being informed by a grave-faced Indira that "I'm sorry, but Papa, Mama and Grandpa are all in prison...
...other children," she recalls. "My favorite occupation was to stand on a high table with the servants gathered around me and deliver thunderous political speeches." She taught her dolls to march in Mahatma Gandhi's protest demonstrations. Then other dolls would race up and lead the demonstrators off to jail. One of the callers who sometimes helped the lonely little girl stage the doll demonstrations was a frail Congress Party worker, Lal Bahadur Shastri...
...Spain - a punishment far harsher than a few months in jail. And last month, for the first time in history, the grey-uniformed security cops, whom Spaniards call los grises, defied centuries of university tradition by entering a Madrid University classroom building to break up an "unauthorized" student meeting...
...this emphasis on individual rights has made the work of law enforcement more difficult and costly," complains Alameda (Oakland) County's veteran District Attorney Frank Coakley. By contrast, California Bar Association President John Sutro is a Traynor admirer. "You and I would like to see all crooks in jail," says Sutro. "So would Chief Justice Traynor. But this is a government of law not men, and the maintenance of that essential is the difference between our government and tyranny." It is, moreover, what makes a state court vital to U.S. law. "The real danger to law is not that...