Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...witted as possible. Abel boasts that he was able to destroy the most incriminating evidence under the noses of the arresting officers by flushing his encoder down the toilet and scraping paint from his artist's palette onto the coded cable. In the car that took him to prison, Abel claims that one bumbling FBI man examined his hollowed-out tie clasp and let a microfilm message fall to the floor unnoticed. "No professional spy wants to admit that he goofed," says an FBI spokesman, dismissing Abel's claims as "complete nonsense...
Then, in a startling about-face, the regime announced that it had decided to spare the 30-year-old deserter. Instead of death, he faced a long term in a prison on the island of Aegina. What had happened...
Birth control crusader Bill Baird yesterday collected signatures at Harkness Commons for a petition supporting his Dec. 2 appeal on a five-year prison term in the Massachusetts Supreme Court...
...sublime moment from Edgar G. Ulmer's The Black Cat, starring Karloff and Lugosi. Lugosi plays Dr. Vitus Werdegast, a tortured psychoanalyst imprisoned during WW I by the villainous General Poelzig (Karloff) who, in turn, married and murdered Werdegast's wife Karen. Werdegast, after fifteen years in the prison from which few men return ("I have returned," he says gravely at one point), journeys to Poelzig's house to investigate Karen's death and eventually kill the murderer. Through a nasty turn in the weather, he is accompanied by two American newlyweds honeymooning in Hungary. Of course, their unexpected presence...
...welfare mothers and 15 sympathetic students--including nine from Harvard and Radcliffe--will be tried today in Boston Municipal Court on charges of trespassing and conspiracy arising out of last week's sit-in at the State House. If convicted, each defendant could be sentenced to one year in prison...