Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once subdued, Martinis was charged with drunken driving, reckless driving and leaving the scene of the accident. He faced a maximum penalty of $1,500 fine and three years in jail...
...illegality of their action) is all ready to lift their passports. For those who are "definitely Communists," President Kennedy last week said that some further action "is being considered." Under the law, they could be fined up to $5,000 each and sentenced to up to five years in jail for violating the travel...
...Brasilia." Such talk annoyed the noncommissioned officers, a more left-wing bunch, who tend to consider Goulart something of a kindred spirit. From Rio's Sergeants' Club came accusations that the generals wanted to overthrow the President. A pair of oratorical army sergeants were put in jail for tirades against the officers. When a marine sergeant was arrested for similar talk, 100 of his comrades, protesting his arrest, had to be marched off to the stockade...
...sweltering heat of Virginia's Prince Edward County, Negroes woke from long torpor last week to demonstrate against the most infamous segregationist tactic in the U.S. - the closing of all public schools there since 1959. White officials requested extra jail space in eight surrounding counties - enough, said one Negro leader, "to house every citizen of Prince Edward County, Negro and white, including horses, cattle and dogs." The poignant point of the strug gle was summed up in one teen-age picket's placard. It read: DEMOCRASY. "These niggers can't even spell," scoffed a white cop. "What...
...liquor bottles, the argument of the prosecution was that the Sheriff couldn't have possibly arrested Charlie Ware and Hayes arbitrarily. If he had been unfair to Charlie then why wasn't he equally unfair to Hayes who was released the next morning while Ware was kept in jail on the charge of public drunkenness...