Word: sheriffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JIMMY Stewart recently criticized Support Your Local Sheriff on the grounds that the movie had purposely set out to violate the western myth and "when the myth becomes legend I believe in printing the legend." The quote is a bastardization of a line delivered to Stewart in John ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and in its original context is a very bitter statement of an author (Ford) attempting to reevaluate his entire system of values. Stewart's recent use of the quote is not only far more common, it derives from a very dangerous assumption: that there...
...have not yet even discovered the sit-in. Hippies and drugs? Rare in Vegas. MARIJUANA-THE SOCIAL ASSASSIN, read the billboards that District Attorney George Franklin has erected along the main drag. Townsfolk are still chuckling about what happened to the two hirsute, peace-bead types whom a deputy sheriff discovered on The Strip a month or so ago. He drove them out into the desert, pointed them toward Barstow, Calif. (153 miles away), and ordered them to start walking...
...ranch" even has air service. Owned by Rick Blakemore, an unpaid deputy sheriff of Nye County, Mustang Air Service operates two Cessna 206s on the run between Las Vegas and Tonopah, making seven stops en route at bordellos like Cottontail Ranch. In addition to transporting Johns named Smith, "I fly the girls to and from the houses and take the doctor and the county health officer on regular Saturday inspection tours," says Blakemore. He performs other official functions, like fingerprinting the prostitutes in each brothel for the sheriff's office files. "This is a dirty, rotten business," he cheerfully...
...valuable, three-acre lot that it owned and planned to develop. Police evicted students and street people, who had made the tract into a pleasant, albeit illegal, People's Park (TIME, May 23). When a rock- and pipe-throwing mob of students and radicals protested, Alameda County sheriff's deputies-dubbed by students the "Blue Meanies"-sprayed them with birdshot and buckshot. One bystander, James Rector, 25, died last week of buckshot wounds. Rector, a drifter and probation violator, had been watching the fracas from a rooftop. Police fired at his perch after bricks were thrown from...
Both sides quickly stiffened their efforts. Sheriff Frank I. Madigan, 61, empowered to act under a Governor's emergency decree issued during a previous student disorder, called in Guardsmen and police from surrounding areas. Soon 2,260 troops, plus cops and sheriff's deputies, patrolled the town and campus. Berkeley began to look like an occupied city, with Army Jeeps and trucks clogging the streets, helicopters patrolling the skies and "Yanqui go home" scrawled on walls. Protest marches of up to 4,000, though illegal under the emergency edict, became a daily occurrence. Late last week, Guardsmen surrounded...