Word: laws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there was still a mystique about leaders. Professors, priests, parents, and presidents commanded respect. Many of the brightest sought protection in being close to power in government, corporations, law firms, big newspapers. But we were learning that there was no progress without courage and vision. I visited Harry S. Truman in Kansas City, to interview him for The Crimson. In 1948, we had been the only Massachusetts paper to support him. "Aren't you a funny magazine?" he asked. "No, we try to be serious," I answered. What did he think of President Eisenhower? "How can he let that bastard...
...White comes up for sentencing in mid-June, the maximum penalty he can receive is seven years and eight months in prison. Said Moscone's successor, Mayor Dianne Feinstein, of the verdict: "A very hard decision for almost all of us to handle. As I look at the law, it was two murders...
According to the law, the prosecution need not prove damage to win a conviction, but any jury that might hear the case will probably be more sympathetic than the Justice Department. Wrote Atlanta Constitution Columnist Bill Shipp: "Bert Lance has about as much chance of being convicted by a jury in north Georgia as I have of winning the Irish sweepstakes. And I never buy a ticket...
...including members of the vaunted Texas Rangers, combed the countryside, scanning the sagebrush and cactus scrubland from helicopters, throwing up roadblocks, searching bars, and rummaging through seedy Mexican border towns. For five days the hunt went on while the twelve wily fugitives eluded the long, sweaty arm of the law, even though their mug shots were splashed all across the front pages of the state's newspapers...
...garage apartment that had only two beds, a shower, a toilet and a sink-and a peephole in the door. Most of the Bees figured that they would be there only a short time until Hobby agreed to drop the bill, but he instead empowered the state law-enforcement officers to arrest the fugitives and return them to Austin. He argued that under the law he could force them to appear on the senate floor...