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...fine and forbidden to drive. In debt for tobacco, rent, and worst of all, for coffin lumber, he limps through one hand-mangling day heaving shovelfuls of earth for a huge industrial corporation-and gets fired for incompetence. Employed in a sizzling restaurant kitchen, he is falsely accused of theft, gets fired again...
...twelve non-existent melody lines into a passable record. The resulting styles skip from Chinese to Calypso, by way of a plethora of hoked-up Folk Rock, and the one catchy tune, Bamiba, turns out to be an old Kingston Trio favorite, complete with only slightly altered lyrics. This theft, I must add, is in the best tradition of militant songsters the world over, and it is only to be regretted that Sadler and Bass confined their chicanery to the musical dregs of the last ten years...
...magistrate had already made up his mind about the case. Chicago's Judge James B. Parsons, first Negro ever appointed to a federal district bench in the continental U.S., described King's "trusteeship" as "theft." Said Parsons: "The laws of theft are as important to Negroes as they are to anyone else...
...Goldberg. In Australia in 1959, for example, the Victoria Supreme Court upheld the misprision conviction of a man who knew who shot him but refused to tell the police. In England in 1961, the House of Lords upheld the similar conviction of a man who had discovered an arms theft at a U.S. Air Force base but failed to report it. In the U.S., says Goldberg, misprision of felony is a perfectly viable common-law charge in Vermont, a statutory offense in Maine, and a 176-year-old federal crime (U.S. Code, Title 18, Section 4), which is punishable...
Tough Northerner. Ky and his fellow officers of the ruling Directory had no illusions about the magnitude of their task from the beginning. As CMef of State General Nguyen Van Thieu observed in justifying the generals' takeover, the body politic was raddled with "contemptible acts of profiteering, theft, swindling, bribery, oppression of the weak, shirking of responsibility while receiving government pay, misappropriation of public funds, illegal transfer of funds to foreign countries, sabotaging the national economy, hoarding, and speculating on such prime necessities as food and medicines." Indeed, one of Ky's first statements as Premier...