Word: prisoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pranced around in the nude spraying one another with a garden hose. Finally, a motorcycle roared up to the house in Los Altos, Calif., and the rider yelled, "They're two minutes behind me." Two minutes later, "they"-a pair of federal marshals-arrived to escort Harris to prison where he will serve a three-year sentence on his 1968 conviction for refusing induction into the Army. The former president of Stanford's student body went quietly with a "Catch you later" to friends and a kiss from Joan. A reporter asked her how it would feel...
...medical symposium on marijuana, President Nixon announced a national drive against narcotics and other drugs rated dangerous. Nixon asked Congress to impose stiff penalties for violations, and to make federal drug-abuse law more consistent. Now the penalty for sale of marijuana is two to ten years in prison for a first offender, while sale of the far more dangerous LSD carries only a maximum one-year term. The Administration asked Congress to set from five to 20 years as the penalty for sale of both drugs. It will also propose a uniform law for the 50 states...
...this related only peripherally to the prosecution, which actually seemed to be based on Gandar's past op position to racial policies and the fact that the prison stories had been picked up by the foreign press. Editors, argued the prosecutor, should refrain from publishing material that might embarrass the government abroad...
...appointed counsel. But it also calls on five of its own solicitors who have compiled an impressive-if not universally welcomed-record. New Society, an influential sociological magazine, reports that not one first offender represented by Release solicitors on charges of possessing marijuana has so far been sent to prison...
...Then, all of a sudden, playwrights and directors decided that nudity was significant, artistic and serious. In 1965, Jean-Paul Marat briefly flashed his gluteus maximus in Marat/Sade. As the marquis warned in the same play, "The revolution of the flesh will make all your other revolutions seem like prison mutinies." And so it almost...