Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against the draft and the war of half a million students at the least. It was a disturbing challenge. Why, indeed, is there no massive student protest of the war? The CRIMSON poll suggests that a significant number of seniors were considering either leaving the country or going to jail in order to avoid induction. These are pretty drastic acts. The poll also showed that 94 per cent of the sample was against the present U.S. policy in Vietnam. But why are Harvard anti-war demonstrations so meager, so self-conscious, so temperate...
...They," The Man, whatever you want to call the representatives of the Establishment, doesn't want you to act. He's worried about the potential of organized student protest. There are a lot of students in the United States and it would be hard to put them all in jail without disturbing their parents. Besides, once out of college, where is the Left in the United States? It's hard to find; Socialist candidates are something of a joke, and many radical graduates return to the campuses because they aren't appreciated in the outside world...
...Palais de Justice in Nice last week was short, pudgy, somewhat shopworn and 50. He looked, as the presiding judge himself remarked, exactly like a smalltown butter-and-cheese merchant. But there was nothing, absolutely nothing, small-time about Pierre Aunay. Standing trial on eight separate charges-ranging from jail breaking to cashing phony money orders-Aunay pleaded innocent on all counts. He was, he explained to the court, far too big a crook to have committed such insignificant crimes and far too slick a crook to be caught for the crimes he did commit. Not that the police...
...friends to court to catch a glimpse of him, and Le Figaro, a hard-headed newspaper that is not easily impressed, observed that "Aunay has given a course in swindling." Aunay's judge, unfortunately, was less impressed. He found him guilty on two counts, sent him back to jail for 21 years...
...either ill or under the influence. He has not opened his eyes since coming into the courtroom." The astounded judge had Shead awakened. Then he angrily declared a mistrial and sentenced the surprised juror to 30 days for contempt of court. Shead was immediately packed off to the county jail, and last week the judge ordered a hearing to determine whether he should be transferred to an alcoholic rehabilitation center...