Word: robber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prisoner has no right of privacy. Without his knowledge, convicted Robber Harold Travers' parole hearing at Connecticut's Somers State Prison was secretly filmed and recorded by Hartford's WTIC-TV for a documentary on prison life. Though his face and name were not revealed, Travers sought $50,000 damages from the station and state officials for invasion of privacy. The facts might indeed have entitled a "full-fledged citizen" to sue, ruled U.S. District Judge M. Joseph Blumenfeld. But "no actionable invasion occurs if the subject of such publicity is a prisoner. A prisoner becomes...
...about to hand down for an angrily divided Su preme Court was sure to echo through law-enforcement agencies across the land. For the court was reversing the' convictions of four confessed crimi nals: Kidnaper-Rapist Ernesto Miranda, Mugger Roy Stewart, Stickup Man Mi chael Vignera and Bank Robber Carl Westover. It was a decision that seemed to invite controversy, but Warren in sisted that the court was not offering any innovations. It was merely reaffirming any criminal defendant's basic constitutional right to the assistance of a lawyer and the freedom from any compulsion to testify against...
William Gordan Jr., an employee of Design Research, Inc., 57 Brattle St., was intercepted by a lone bandit on his way to deposit the company money at the Cambridge Trust Company. He said the robber stuck a blunt instrument in his back at Holyoke St. and Mass Ave. and walked him down to Mt. Auburn St. toward Holyoke Center...
...About your Essay on humor [March 4]: You were right to include among the alltime big ones Jack Benny's reply to the robber who demanded his money or life. When I mentioned this old radio classic to Benny recently, he said: "That was our longest laugh. But the one I like best was on our TV show. My trousers were draped on a rack, and when a delivery boy came in, Rochester got a quarter out of my pocket and tipped the boy. Then I came in, hefted my trousers once, and said, 'Rochester, who took...
...Civil War, the Senate was subservient to Lincoln. But with war's end and Lincoln's death, it rapidly reasserted itself and achieved its pinnacle of power if not prestige. Its leaders were party bosses and spoilsmen; in the burgeoning economy of the Reconstruction Era, many a robber baron found that a state legislature could be bought and, with it, a Senate seat. When one Senator seriously proposed a bill unseating those Senators whose places had been purchased, Senator Weldon Heyburn of Idaho replied: "We might lose a quorum here, waiting for the courts...