Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Connor clashed headon. The commissioner had his cops-plus a pack of snarling police dogs and a battery of high-pressure fire hoses. The Negro minister had only the determination and courage of his people. He had mobilized schoolchildren for his freedom parades. Hundreds of kids were in jail, and, as last week began, Birmingham was at the point of explosion. "Forgive Them." On Sunday, the Negroes tried, as they had before, to worship in white churches. But segregation in Birmingham's Christian churches is nearly as rigid as in public toilets: Negroes got into four churches, were ordered...
...their water on. Let them use their dogs. We are not leaving. Forgive them, O Lord." Suddenly, inexplicably, in a moment of overt mercy, Bull Connor waved the Negroes through the police line. He allowed them 15 minutes of hymns and prayer in a small park near the city jail; inside, behind bars, hundreds of other Negroes could hear the singing. Returning to the church, the demonstrators were told that Negro children would march again next day-and should carry their toothbrushes with them to use in jail. The march began a few minutes past 1 o'clock...
...courtroom, "but I had no idea how intelligence operated. I now know." Even before the prosecutor finished his summation at the end of the trial, the government newspaper Izvestia appeared in the courtroom reporting his demand for punishment: a death sentence for Penkovsky and ten years in jail for Wynne. The military tribunal retired to confer, then passed judgment. Penkovsky's mouth dropped open in shock when the verdict was announced. He would be shot; Wynne would do eight years in jail...
...spent his early youth in Louis-le-grand," gloated the Archbishop of Paris -charitably including that perverted praetorian, the Marquis de Sade. The pattern continued despite the suppression of the Jesuits in 1762, when the jealous Sorbonne swallowed the school. During the French Revolution, the school doubled as a jail for "enemies" of the Revolution, including Old Grad Robespierre, on his way to the guillotine. So combustible was 19th century France that between 1801 and 1873 the school was renamed eight times-from the Lycée Impérial (Napoleon's era) to the Lycée Descartes...
HIGH FINANCE One is a former junkman who began entrepreneuring at 16 by buying a deserted jail and selling its steel bars at a profit. Another is a courtly Southern tycoon who lives in a mansion in Yemassee, S.C. The third man once conducted his family business, the nation's biggest maker of toothpaste tubes, from a floating desk in the pool of his Greenwich, Conn., home until the pool became too small to contain his world. They make an unlikely trio, but together they have set out to be corporate conquerors in the style of Louis Wolfson...