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...court, and sentenced to 40 years in prison. Vito Genovese, who possibly oversaw the distribution of 17½ Ibs. of heroin, who was only commercially interested, when tried in April received 15 years. (Harsher penalties only get the applause of the "big city boys" who distribute narcotics, because the stiffer the penalty the higher the price...
...keeps a hot eye on the Atlanta press. Last November, during a civil hearing, Judge Pye barred news photographers not only from the courthouse but from "adjacent sidewalks and streets" (TIME, Dec. 1). Last week Atlanta's two associated papers, the Constitution and the Journal, faced a far stiffer rap from Pye: a $20,000 fine for contempt of court...
...need a man like Dale Junta on your team to lick them at number one." But there is always a problem of adjustment to playing conditions for the visiting team, and, although the varsity did well at Navy and Penn, Princeton will be a good deal stiffer...
...Louis Joseph Abbate and Michael Louis Falcone, union-hired hoods, lightly sentenced (three months each) by an Illinois court for a plot to blow up Bell Telephone equipment, later got stiffer sentences (three years, one year) in U.S. court for conspiracy to destroy U.S.-used communications lines...
...general comparison of European and American systems of higher education, Hartner pointed out that American universities impose stiffer concentration requirements than European universities do. "We feel it is unwise for students always to be spoon-fed," he declared, so that the only requirement made of most European students is that they choose some field of concentration...