Word: walking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eight months. For the first 18 months the MGB tried unsuccessfully to force their prisoner to confess that he was a spy, than sentenced him to 25 years of hard labor anyway. He served only a third of that, but not until he was almost 30 did Alexander Dolgun walk a Moscow street again...
...Cagney spy movie. In his cell, he sang Don't Fence Me In, Mairzy Doats and the Marines' Hymn, and in every way used his dream of returning to America to keep his spirits up. There is an astonishing passage in the book describing how he began walking from one end of his cell to the other, counting each measured footstep as he imagined himself walk ing out of prison into the suburbs of Moscow, crossing into Poland, across Germany and France, on to the floor of the Atlantic...
...Even if they dropped the charges against me back in New York and I could walk free, I don't think I'd wanna go back," concluded Fugitive Radical Abbie Hoffman, 38. Facing a 15-year to life prison term if convicted on drug-dealing charges in New York, Hoffman has been on the lam since jumping bail 13 months ago. In an interview with Ron Rosenbaum of New Times and TV Documentary Producer Michael Shamberg, Hoffman described in considerable detail his new life as a member of the underground. Not only has he undergone plastic surgery, claimed...
...Explorers blasted nature's quiet; a disc jockey was brought in as master of ceremonies. A helicopter bombarded the Scouts with 15,000 fortune cookies containing quiz questions. Possibly the most shocking deviation from tradition was a Magic Forest Electronic Nature Trail event. The old nature walk was replaced by a marked course, along which cassette tape recorders emitted sounds of the wild. Said Campex-West's Michael: "It's about like Disneyland...
...going to talk about the end of Watergate, why don't we take a walk away from the convicts and step into the shafts of sunlight provided by some of the people who are for their country, rather than against...