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...Cambridge Italian community plans to charter a bus to the game in the Yale Bowl. Informed that some Harvard-Yale contests are played on Friday, the mayor said that the contingent may go down early. "We want to do the thing up right," he saad. "We'll stay overnight and cheer against every Yale team. They never should have done that to us and Columbus...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Italians Back Crimson: 'Win One for Columbus' | 9/29/1971 | See Source »

...inmates are black, as are 5% of the guards), moved his office into the prison and learned almost all his prisoners' first names. He hired two lawyers to give the inmates legal advice and turned the sheriff's house over for inmate use, including overnight visits with families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Prisons: The Way to Reform | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

Work of the Century. Already, the first families of settlers are moving into the clearings left in the bulldozers' wake. Small backwater towns of the Amazon like Altamira and Maraba (see map) have turned overnight into construction boom towns where disputes are often settled with a gun. In gold-mining Itaituba, for instance, marijuana is literally worth its weight in gold; an ounce of one buys an ounce of the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Transamazonia: The Last Frontier | 9/13/1971 | See Source »

...plan had been to keep the judges locked up overnight, but after they tumbled to the hoax, they were released on their own recognizance. They still had to appear in court the next day for a "trial." To their amused dismay, their assailant turned state's evidence, but the judges were still found not guilty. After it was all over, said former Judge Laurance Hyde Jr., dean of the college, "the only objections were by those who didn't participate. They all asked why they didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Your Honors, You're Under Arrest | 9/6/1971 | See Source »

...cocktails and a sumptuous dinner. Next morning the visitors were shuttled to the country's thriving new tourist attraction: the Palace of Justice. By noontime they were divorced from their spouses back home. The cost: about $500 in legal expenses, plus air fare and the price of an overnight stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Divorce, Caribbean Style | 8/30/1971 | See Source »

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