Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Connor and Police Chief Jamie Moore got an injunction against all demonstrations from a state court. King announced that he would ignore it, led some 1,000 Negroes toward the business district. Both King and one of his top aides, the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, were promptly thrown into jail...
...extremely optimistic" claim that Chemtree Corp. had developed a shield against radiation fallout sent its stock up from 43? to $9.50 within a month. The SEC study proposed a new law to make "intentional or reckless dissemination of false and misleading statements" subject to stockholder damage suits and jail terms...
Jakob is hemmed in by the paraphernalia of a semipolice state-threats of jail, surveillance, party slogans. Jakob's mother and the girl are already in the West. Why doesn't Jakob join them? Jakob is not fond of the party, or of the Russians. But he takes pride in doing his job well. When a Russian troop train must be rushed through to put down the 1956 Hungarian uprising, he shunts off local traffic to let it pass. He rejects a colleague's suggestion that the switchmen should hold it up. Such a gesture...
...week over one hundred Negroes have been arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, as a result of the non violent campaign for integration that began there last Wednesday. The other arrests were precipitated by similar demonstrations and lunch-counter sit-ins. Already 24 Negroes have been sentenced to 180 days in jail and a fine of $100 each...
...participate. The president urged undergraduates to engage in the sitins that swept Atlanta in 1960-61. "But," he recalls, "we were not prepared to alter the level of excellence expected from our students. Faculty members were asked to let students make up work missed, but time spent in jail was not considered an excuse for inadequate scholarship...