Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maximum penalty in Massachusetts for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon is ten years in the State Prison...
Berg is to appear in the Cambridge Third District Court next Thursday. The maximum penalty for criminal trespass is 30 days in prison or a $100 fine...
These days, there seem to be nearly as many newsmen coming out of China as news items. Five days after the release of Reuters Correspondent Anthony Grey (TIME, Oct. 10), the doors of a Shanghai prison swung open for a freelance journalist, Norman Barrymaine, 19 months after he had entered it. Four days later, a onetime London Daily Herald feature writer (and more recently a Chinese government translator) named Eric Gordon was allowed to leave Peking with his wife and 13-year-old son after nearly two years under house arrest. The three journalists' remembrances added...
...admitted to reporters that after seven months in captivity, he had signed a "whole transcript, millions of bloody words of it, and a few confessions as well. Why not? I can assure you," he added with a smile, "it's not pleasant to be in a Chinese prison. Then again, I don't suppose it's meant...
...like something out of an early Happening. Or an Andy Warhol movie. Or one of those puckish pop art pieces of George Segal or Marisol. As a matter of fact, Henry Geldzahler can claim all that and more. He first came into public view-a quasi-somnambulant rotundity in prison stripes afloat in a rubber raft-in an Oldenburg Happening mounted in the swimming pool of a Manhattan health club. Next came instant stardom before a Warhol camera. His role: smoking a cigar for an interminable hour and a half. "I have a certain unusual look," says Henry...