Word: abduction
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Segregationist by creed but able lawyer by profession, Mississippi's Governor James Plemon Coleman is no man to fool around with racist lawlessness. Last month, when a bunch of masked toughs broke into a jail at Poplarville (pop. 2,500) to abduct and kill an accused Negro rapist named Mack Charles Parker, Governor Coleman acted swiftly and sensibly: he asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to enter the case. From that point on, event followed event with the predictability of a Pearl White flicker...
Federal Judge Alexander Holtzoff, who heard the case in Washington, acknowledged the military's right to try a civilian for his military crimes, but questioned its authority to arrest a civilian, much less abduct him to a foreign country. Then Judge Holtzoff ruled that a writ of habeas corpus should be issued. The Air Force reluctantly brought its prisoner home for a court hearing scheduled for next week...
...court-martial in Salzburg last week convicted an American corporal and a sergeant of kidnaping. Corporal Paul Abel got 20 years and Sergeant John Frankey got 15 years after they confessed that they had taken $653 from the Russians to abduct a gardener named Oswald Eder, a double spy who served both the Russians and the Allies (TIME...
...present-day heiress to the tumbledown estate is ten-year-old Maria, "one of those tough and friendly people who do things first and think about them afterward." The plot of Mistress Mas ham's Repose revolves around the efforts of Maria's fiendish guardians to abduct the Lilliputians and sell them to Hollywood...
...roundheeled as a neutron, Lanny penetrates the atomic age. Roosevelt packs him off to Princeton for a cram-and-jam (physics and Mozart) session with Albert Einstein, thence to Germany to abduct atomic data. But a plane crash lays Lanny up on a spiffy yacht; two lovely young shipmates make sweet moan at him all the way to Hong Kong...