Word: writting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then decided the idea was unwise. The judge also decreed that all arrested juveniles be held in the city jail without bond for as long as two weeks pending a hearing. The Ledger called that policy "terrible." Indeed, it led one 17-year-old boy to file a federal writ of habeas corpus with U.S. District Judge S. Hugh Dillin in nearby Indianapolis. For technical reasons, Dillin could not spring the boy, but he ordered New to set bond at $100 and called New's rules "ridiculous." They may be, but they are still in effect...
...DeEr ReedER: ONE of The AmAZIN FACKS abouT the RITEr of this bOOK is he nose a lil SUMPthin $$$$$$ ABOut The SUBjeck he writ ABOut. He was a skOOL DRop-oUT." So begins the latest federal literature out of Sargent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity-a comic book called Li'l Abner and the Creatures from Drop-Outer Space. Cartoonist Al Capp, 55, plucks Li'l Abner out of Dogpatch, the world's most bizarre poverty pocket, installs him as a "brilliant young technician with a big job, and even bigger feet, who befriends Danny...
...into jail. After a few months Arraes became a sort of Brazilian Dreyfus; letters of protest poured in from hundreds of admirers, including Novelists Graham Greene and François Mauriac, and Switzerland's Charles Cardinal Journet. Last week the federal supreme court unanimously granted Arraes a writ of habeas corpus-in effect, ordering his release forthwith from Fort Santa Cruz across the bay from Rio. His jailers simply ignored the order, as well as a brusque telegram from the supreme court president directing the generals to "accept the decision just as it was communicated...
...surprising that a book like Indian's Ex-Untouchables was not writ before, but it is not at all surprising that Harold Isaacs wrote it. Isaacs long been a careful observers of the an scene. As part of his inquiry in-what he calls "the interaction between political change and group identity," he has written four books, including this...
...spelled out. The Indian government has taken fairly substantial steps, including preferential hiring, to alleviate the lot of the ex-Untouchables. But as Isaac point out, anti-Negro discrimination is at variance with America's egalitarian ideology, while Untouchability in India is sanctioned by millenia of tradition, custom, holy writ and backwardness itself...