Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Three plainclothesmen on the Brooklyn Morals Squad were hauled up for the shakedown of a bookie; their arrest touched off a grand jury investigation of the entire squad...
...this was no answer, argued London's Economist. Poor Nyasaland would become a "rural slum"; self-governing Southern Rhodesia, isolated, would become a satellite of South Africa, and Africa might be split between African and white at the Zambezi River, with ominous consequences. Was it too late to arrest the trend? In London, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Cabinet, without seeking Welensky's advice-and, as it turned out, against his wishes-began making counter plans. It put British troops in Kenya on a six-hour alert, flew in transport planes from Cyprus and Singapore...
...plot starts out thick as minestrone and thickens, thickens, thickens. It centers around a travelling salesman whose wife suspects him on general principles. When the police arrest this simple fellow on bigamy charges, no one investigates the possibility of mistaken identity. Which might have saved a good deal of trouble. Meanwhile, noisy relatives of all parties clog the wheels of justice...
...slapped a curfew on Brazzaville, went on the air to plead for calm, even spoke harshly to his own Balali followers. Eventually, to the embarrassment of the new republic, French troops had to be called in to restore order. An uneasy peace returned, with at least 500 people under arrest. Among them: Jacques Opangault, charged with "incitement to sedition, rebellion and pillage...
...York Stock Exchange suspended trading in Jacobs stock for failure to file financial statements. Last week SEC suspended over-the-counter trading in Jacobs and Bon Ami. When space was booked in Guterma's name on a plane to Ankara, SEC quickly obtained a warrant for his arrest, said that losses to investors would reach many millions. Picked up with him was a longtime financial associate, Robert J. Eveleigh, who was found in a Manhattan call girls' apartment fortnight ago when police raided...