Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reason Why. Weekenders, it turns out, are people who work five days a week, with two days off for getting into sociologically fascinating trouble. That is, weekenders are almost everyone not in jail. Most weekenders, Author Gunther reports, embrace the Fun Mystique. The weekender's "selfesteem depends on his success in having, or at least demonstrating, fun. The weekender likes to be thought of as an extrovert who lives in a loud fast whirl of activities. Anything less is felt to be almost if not quite pathological . . . Dr. James A. Wylie of Boston University has studied family recreation...
...Sherman Cooper's plan to require juries except in cases where local and state officials are defendants. That left two more jury amendments. One, sponsored jointly by Mansfield and Republican Leader Everett Dirksen, would limit jury trials to violations that carried penalties of more than 30 days in jail and $300 fines. The other, offered by Georgia Democrat Herman Talmadge, would require juries in all criminal contempt suits, whatever law they violated. Votes on both were postponed to this week. The Senate resumed talking...
...pouring $75,000 into Oregon. Explains the group's leader, Paul Grindie, 43, a bouncy scientific instruments importer: "Everyone says we can't contract for things without having the money. Then they give you some money because they don't want you to go to jail. This is as good a technique of raising it as any. Tell me a better...
...airplane after all. But the adult U.S. male who shows up at the park with kite and twine is certain to be suspect unless he has a passel of kids in tow. And there is something definably foreign about the doughty Somerset Maugham hero who preferred to rot in jail rather than pay his ex-wife alimony-all because she had smashed his favorite kite...
This uneasy balance forces him to act more conservatively than most southern rights leaders. He refuses, for example, to participate in demonstrations, because "we can't afford the luxury of having our only lawyer in jail." Instead, he may observe the pickets from a distance offering advice about an appropriate method of picketing and warning demonstrators not to block doorways or pedestrian traffic. He will address a freedom rally only to explain the legal issues of the situation. His most intimate contact with the Movement is through the Executive Board...