Word: writting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However they may fail themselves, though, incarcerated counselors are busier than ever aiding other inmates. Texas' Huntsville Prison now has a "writ room," where prisoners can polish up petitions like collegians in the library. Kansas State Penitentiary offers a big law library, partly the gift of beneficent lawyers. At Washington's State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, a special "law wing" provides typewriters as well as texts. Some prisoners are getting so legalistic, complains a Tennessee state prosecutor, that "it's getting a damned sight harder to keep them in than to put them...
...sense, it is absurd to find Communists today fighting each other-and the rest of the world-over a tomb, with a mass of dated polemics used both as sacred writ and a manual of strategy. But unlike monarchists, Reds cannot find legitimacy in a family tree or by divine right. Unlike democrats, they do not draw their mandate from the people they rule. Communist legitimacy, such as it is, derives from the writings of Karl Marx and from the words and deeds of Lenin, the first man to apply Marxism to a living nation...
...spent two weeks in jail awaiting a trial in which she could expect the absolute maximum: six months in jail, twelve months in the county work camp, and a $1,000 fine. Hipped on Race. To her amazement, and Pye's ire, Defendant Hall escaped. Armed with a writ of habeas corpus, U.S. marshals whisked her out of her cell and freed her on $1,000 bond. "The United States Government has taken said defendant away," roared Judge Pye. "The court is physically unable to proceed with the trial." The court also was unable to try 58 other civil...
Cops to Kids. Corfam is already one of the most tested and complex chem ical substances ever created. Porous, scuff-resistant, water-repellent, shape-retaining - the properties are an ad writ er's dream - it is basically a combina tion of polyester and polyurethane made into sheets resembling leather by an incredibly intricate process. Before put ting its shoes on the market, Du Pont passed out 19,000 pairs to human test ers who ranged from the Newburgh police force, through its own salesmen and secretaries, to kindergarten kids...
...apartment. When all efforts to break in came to naught, the pack besieged the joint for four days, running their own beauty contest among the babes on Copacabana Beach and checking the trunks of all departing cars to make sure she wasn't smuggled out. Even a writ of habeas corpus failed to lift the siege. At last she emerged to meet the panting press. And what did BB think of Brazilian reporters? "I've never seen such savages," she snarled...