Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the army took over power in Pakistan last October, one of its first acts was to arrest the Bhatti boys. In underwater caves near Karachi, navy frogmen found an incredible two tons of Bhatti gold. Abdullah, closemouthed on the stand but believed to be the brains of the operation, has already been sentenced to life imprisonment. Then Playboy Kassim went on trial-and talked...
...Castro visit, the New York Times, one of his warmest U.S. press friends all through the revolution, abruptly shifted its news line with a 1,400-word story on growing Communist influence in the Castro regime. In pursuit of "revolutionary justice," noted the Times, "it has become customary to arrest members of the Batista armed forces, publish their pictures in the newspapers, including Hoy, the Communist organ-asking if anyone has an accusation against these...
Buick has jolted along a rough road in the last few years. After banner 1955, when it sold 737,879 cars and held third place, Buick skidded steadily to 263,890 sales and fifth place last year. Trying desperately to arrest this slump, Buick Boss Edward Tillottson Ragsdale, 61, radically remodeled the 1959 Buick. But in this year's first quarter, when all other General Motors models rode up, Buick sunk to seventh place as sales slipped another 11%, and its market share dipped from...
Behind Mr. Vautier stand a small but clearly audible group of New Hampshire citizens who work in Massachusetts, and who protest the income tax. They have been trying to get arrested for some time, and have posted signs along the roads leading into Massachusetts with mottos like "entering Tax-achusetts. Watch your wallets." After Mr. Vautier's arrest, they precipitated a minor riot around the Charles Street Jail, pointing out that their children do not go to Massachusetts schools, and that they partake very little in the benefits of the tax system of the state of Massachusetts. But more than...
From Twin or Fetus. This "autograft" principle was the basis of U.S. efforts to arrest leukemia. A four-year-old girl in Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, in Cooperstown, N.Y., was near death, and anti-leukemia drugs would no longer give any relief. Dr. E. Donnall Thomas told an American Cancer Society seminar at Excelsior Springs, Mo. how he then placed the child between two cobalt "bombs" (equivalent to 2,000,000-volt X-ray machines) and subjected her to 800 r.-more than had ever before been given intentionally to a human being. Then he injected marrow cells taken from...