Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Tongays arrived at London Airport last week, the whole family was placed under "technical arrest." While their parents argued with representatives of the Home Office, Bubba and Kathy raced in wild unconcern up & down the corridors of the immigration building. When the officials told them to go home forthwith, Bubba menacingly waved a toy six-shooter under their official noses. Next day the officials relented slightly, said it was all right for the Tongays to stay in England for one month. But any swimming the kids did, they warned, must be strictly for fun-not cash...
...take an interest in young Danielsen's movements. They shadowed him from one furtive rendezvous to another, decided he was passing information to Soviet agents. On April 17, they pounced on him as he was talking to a Soviet Embassy underling in a suburban railway station. The arrest was bungled: Danielsen had already passed over his information, and the Russians refused to give it up, claiming diplomatic immunity...
...year, including some 10,000,000 magazine subscriptions. They wanted to test the constitutionality of the "Green River" ordinance which over 400 U.S. communities have adopted since Green River, Wyo. passed the first one in 1931 to slam the door on solicitors. Breard's lawyers charged that his arrest violated both freedom of the press and free speech. Last week, by 6-to-3, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled otherwise, affirmed the right of any community to restrict door-to-door selling. Justice Stanley Reed, speaking for the majority, wrote: "Subscriptions may be made by anyone interested in receiving...
...After spending four days at the Huemul Island laboratories, he flew back to Buenos Aires for a little chat with President Perón, then hurried home. Back in Amsterdam, the professor said that Perón's atomic expert, Austrian-born Dr. Ronald Richter, was not under arrest when he was there, but refused to discuss Richter's research work. Then he went into seclusion to prepare a report for his government...
...Furious, Perón ordered Dr. Richter arrested," reported Tribuna. "But he has not publicly announced the action, nor is it likely that he will. News of the arrest is being guarded in deepest secrecy by the few persons close to Perón . . . This time Señor Perón is not in the same hurry to call in news correspondents as he was when he announced the sensational discovery of an Argentine thermal nuclear process for the liberation of atomic energy...