Word: prisoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nineteen days after Negro Nihilist H. Rap Brown, 24, married Lynne Doswell, 22, a New York City schoolteacher, a federal judge gave the bridegroom five years in prison and a $2,000 fine...
...Boston trial is expected to drag on for several weeks, despite 85-year-old Judge Francis J. W. Ford's warnings to "get on with it." In another draft-related case, a Baltimore district court last week sentenced two pacifists to six years in federal prison and a third to three years for pouring duck blood on draft-board records. One of those sentenced to a six-year stretch was the Rev. Philip F. Berrigan, 44, a Roman Catholic priest...
Shapiro's probable foe this fall is Cook County Board President, Richard Ogilvie, a Republican who outpolls Daley in his own domain. But Shapiro ran the state at least 50 days a year during Kerner's term, handling mine cave-ins and prison riots; when Kerner was off heading the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, Shapiro was acting Governor for 101 days. He got Chicago through the trauma following Dr. Martin Luther King's death, and has already traveled up and down the state. "I'm gonna campaign," Shapiro said, "because I'm gonna...
...some of Russia's best writing has been published only in the West. Despite its liberalization since Stalin's death, Russia remains full of talented, frustrated authors who are denied an audience in their own country and hunger to be read. Publication abroad can lead straight to prison-as it did for Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, who in 1966 were sentenced to seven-and five-year terms for allowing their biting satirical novels to escape across the border...
Such manuscripts reach the hands of Grani Publisher Gleb Rar by a variety of well-planned means, including secret contacts arranged by Rar between Russian writers and Western visitors (one was British Lecturer Gerald Brooke, who is serving a five-year prison sentence for bringing in anti-Soviet propaganda). Rar says that he prints "only a fraction" of what he gets. Usually, as in Cancer Ward, he publishes excerpts in Grani first and then a full text through Grani's parent publishing house, Possev, which prints a variety of Russian-language fiction and nonfiction titles; much of its output...