Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Students!" the police shouted. "Stop firing! Listen to Monsignor Kennedy!" With two doctors, the stubby, grey-haired clergyman marched through the firing line and into the university. There he found 16 wounded, one dead. Finally, the students laid down their arms and were prodded off to jail...
...hope to neighborhood." add Murmured something one to of your the neighbors, Mrs. Dan Sweeney, "My kids hope he'll teach them to play baseball." Three months out of jail, where he served four years for inciting a 1960 leftist riot, Mexican Artist David Alfaro Siqueiros, 67, was at work on a mural at Chapultepec Castle. His assistant, distrusting the steel framework of the 15-ft.-high scaffold Siqueiros was using, substituted a wooden plank for one of the metal bases. Five minutes later-crash! Siqueiros is now at his Mexico City home with two broken vertebrae, in some...
...measure of the result is that last week Mississippi's Judge Cox coolly tried to jail not only U.S. Attorney Robert E. Hauberg in Jackson but also his boss, Acting Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach...
...cases with gratuitous obiter dicta. At a hearing last March, he referred to a Negro voting registration drive as "grandstanding"; he repeatedly described 200 applicants as "a bunch of niggers" and called them "chimpapzees" who "ought to be in the movies rather than being registered to vote." Fit for Jail. The latest case to cast Cox as a judicial Horatio at the segregation bridge began in 1962 when two Negro witnesses told of being denied the right to register seven years before...
...customers in West Texas' oil-rich, 647-sq.-mi. Loving County that no one has been put in jail there for the past five years. So isolated are Loving's 160 citizens that the county seat of Mentone (pop. 50) was once suggested as the ideal place to get an impartial jury for Jack Ruby. Just how miserable that move would have made Loving was made clear in a rare order just handed down by State District Judge J. H. Starley. Confronted with a troublesome property deed case in Mentone, Judge Starley counted up Loving's grand...