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...adventuresome but much-attacked Delta Ministry, the National Council of Churches' two-year-old experimental instrument of reconciliation between Mississippi's white and Negro people, got a pat on the back and a rap on the knuckles last week from its sponsor. Faced with growing criticism of the project, the council's general board strongly endorsed the Ministry's aims and plans but ordered a study on reorganizing it-in effect conceding that this venture in Christian activism had by no means achieved its goals...
Personal Use. Soon after the pictures arrived, U.S. postal inspectors raided Identification and seized the club's membership lists. The Redmonds were arrested and charged with having tainted the mails, in violation of a federal anti-obscenity statute that carries a maximum rap of five years and $5,000 for the first offense. Found guilty, William was sentenced to nine months in prison, Dorothy...
While publicly faulting the Federal Reserve for kicking up the discount rate last December, Johnson was privately happy that the Fed could take the rap for any restraints. The price of money has inflated dramatically. Since 1964, the Treasury's three-month bill rate has climbed from 3.5% to a high of 4.6%, and the prime rate for top corporate borrowers has soared from 4% to a record 51% . By leaning too hard on monetary policy and taking it easy on tax policy, the Government has further distended and unbalanced the economy. One result: many investors have shifted their...
...were held captive in the living room and made to listen to recordings by Kreisler and Casals. "That's what it should sound like," Papa would say, and then he would lead the boys through their paces. If a little extra encouragement was needed, Papa administered a smart rap on the head with his violin bow. Gradually, recalls Francis, "we learned to love, chamber music as much...
...kill the woman. He was sentenced to death for felony-murder. He did not request counsel, claims he confessed to free his wife. The California Supreme Court said police should have given him a silence warning, reversed his conviction. ¶Michael Vignera, 31, got a 30-to 60-year rap for holding up a Brooklyn dress shop in 1961. Vignera was fingered by a confederate, linked to stolen goods, and identified by his victims. He confessed after about twelve hours. To clinch the police case, he was then grilled far beyond "focus," and was not taken before a judge until...