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...Officers' Club with little hope of early release or even a trial. Said the King emphatically: "They already stand condemned. We have only to decide what to do with them." More fortunate were local Communist leaders; most of them had managed somehow to elude the government's dragnet when the other political leaders were rounded up and jailed. Shrugged a Nepalese official: "Our Communists seem to have a monopoly on escape techniques." As for Katmandu's 13 tiny newspapers, word had been passed to get in line behind the King or risk losing essential government advertising...
...which he has belonged since he was 16 years old. On demand, he must give his present monthly income, the amount of cash deposited in banks and an estimate of the value of his other assets. Said a British applicant: "It made me feel like a refugee from Dragnet." In defense of the system a U.S. consul in The Netherlands said, "If we abolished the visa tomorrow, 20,000 Filipinos and 20,000 Italians would travel to the U.S. without a penny in their pockets...
Films for the Fuhrer. The July 20 plotters-a network of diplomats, politicians and clergymen, working with disillusioned generals and colonels-had paid dearly for their pains. As soon as the news went out that Hitler was alive, the Gestapo began its dragnet Operation Thunderstorm, which brought the number of Germans arrested that year to 33,000. Stauffenberg was shot, and every other man, woman and child by that name was ordered arrested. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel chose suicide by poison. At least 600 men were either guillotined or strangled by piano wire suspended from meat hooks, and their final...
...wife of France's ambassador, disappeared, who should come hurrying to the rescue? None other than Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah himself. Hearing a missing-bird bulletin over the state radio station, Nkrumah forthwith phoned the chief of police in Accra to get his head out of the sand. Dragnet-quick result: the chief found his quarry in his own garden, triumphantly reported to the P.M., who triumphantly eased Madame's distress...
...meandering four years after love walked in, husky-throated Singing Cinemactress Julie London, ex-wife of Dragnet's Joe Friday, and Composer-Pianist Bobby Troup decided to make a wedding of it (in mid-December), left their joint business manager to utter the thought-provoking explanation: "They suddenly discovered there's no reason not to be married...