Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...raised exemplary gladioli; Von Schirach memorized passages from Dante's Divine Comedy), Hess, for the most part, lies on the floor of his 7-by 10-ft. cell, clad in grey shirt, brown corduroys and wooden clogs, and practices yoga. During exercise periods, he marches listlessly about the yard in a black overcoat with a white numeral 7 stenciled on its back. Sometimes he reads the Frankfurter Allgemeine or the Communist Neues Deutschland...
Taking up a domestic life of her own, Mrs. Pat Nugent, 19, set up housekeeping with her new husband in a cozy little duplex house in Austin, complete with automatic dishwasher, air conditioning, three closed-circuit television cameras to scan the yard outside, and a charming little cubicle in the carport for the Secret Service. As soon as Luci and Pat had stowed their luggage at home, they set off for the supermarket to load up on frozen pizzas, dill pickles, potato chips and other staples for the pantry. Pat whistled in disbelief when the checker rang up the inflationary...
Asking Mitzi. Britain last week was in the midst of the greatest manhunt in its history. Object of the hunt was Harry Maurice Roberts, 30, who is wanted "for questioning" in connection with the slaying of three London policemen on Aug. 12. To find him, Scotland Yard has mobilized every available man, questioned Roberts' estranged wife (a Manchester stripper known as "Mitzi the Pocket Venus") and all his friends. Roberts' mug shot has appeared on the front page of nearly every edition of nearly every newspaper in the land, together with police warnings that he is armed...
Mother's Plea. By week's end Scotland Yard had received and investigated more than 3,500 reports of Harry's whereabouts. They had arrested two others in connection with the cop murders, put his mother on television to ask him to give himself up. But there was still no sign of Harry...
Baird also followed the practice, instituted last year at Harvard, of closing all but four gates of the Yard at sunset. This had been a weekend-only policy during the regular year, but Baird decided to put it on a daily basis in order to restrict entrance to the Yard and make it easier for the University police to patrol the dormitory area...