Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Foreman also asked Attorney General Robert Kennedy to invoke the Civil Rights Act of 1960 to free from jail some of the demonstrators arrested in Selma since the beginning of a drive to register voters earlier this month. SNCC officials charged that some demonstrators were forced to sleep on concrete floors and others were fed only bread and water while in jail...
...Wallace was undaunted. He would, he still insisted, bar the way to the Negro students; apparently he wanted to force federal marshals to arrest him and haul him off to jail. To be sure, his action might result in some bloodletting, but there seemed plenty of political profits ready for reaping...
...past. To Love is still another family comedy, the sempiternal soap opera of the theater. This time, the family is British, part tea cozy and part zany. Mama (Claudette Colbert), a one-woman S.P.C.A. who identifies with small fur-bearing animals, has just done an eight-month stretch in jail for blowing up two fur shops with homemade bombs. Daughter is going to have an illegitimate child by an accountant who apparently lacks the caution proper to his vocation. Son is a bearded off-beatnik novelist who has brought home to London a monolingual Greek gamine first encountered...
...kept on their whereabouts. With the Buddhist opposition lulled for the moment, Saigon's student population feebly tried to raise protests against the government. Pelted with chairs and desks thrown from classroom windows, government troops closed many of Saigon's schools, threw nearly 1,000 students into jail to cool off. It seemed likely that Viet Cong agents inspired much of the demonstrating...
...blocks of brick flats. During lunch breaks at the factory, Belhomme recalls, workers "talked mostly about food, how to get food, and prices." When an office worker referred to the Communist cadres as "golden boys," his reward was a trip to a "labor-education camp," and then to jail. On his return, he was reemployed, but as a common laborer...