Word: incommunicado
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...week's end Hal Hayes sat isolated and incommunicado among his green rugs and bomb shelters, all of which seemed insufficient protection for the jam he was in. No one knew for sure what his gamma-eyed creditors would do to his empire. But everyone in Hollywood agreed that it would be a shame indeed if anything put an end to those lovely parties in that all-out house...
...very night they had caught the King's wife, Queen Damali, and the King's brother, Prince Juko, in the shrubbery of the palace grounds. Worst of all, Prince Juko had been clad only in underpants. The King sternly announced that Queen Damali was to be confined incommunicado to her room for the present, and would later be exiled to the lonely Sese Islands, 30 miles offshore in Lake Victoria. The assembled advisers were not terribly impressed by the King's evidence, since they-and all Buganda-were well aware that the King wants to divorce Queen...
Died. Vera von Schuschnigg, 55, gracious, musical Viennese beauty who married Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg by proxy (1938) when he was held incommunicado by the invading Nazis, followed him from one concentration camp to another, until both were liberated by U.S. troops in 1945, came to the U.S., where the ex-Chancellor is now professor of government at St. Louis University; of cancer; in Kirkwood...
...Turkish Custom. Early the following morning, while McCuistion was still being held incommunicado, Turkish police picked up U.S. Air Force Sergeant Giacomo Recevuto, of Brooklyn. And that afternoon Izmir Police Chief Nevzat Emrealp informed NATO authorities that he wanted to have "a little talk" about currency black-marketing with two other U.S. sergeants, James D. King of Ruth, Miss, and Joseph Proietti of Mt. Kisco, N.Y. Emrealp did not mention that his men had already extracted from the Turkish manager of the NATO noncoms' club in Izmir a confession implicating King-a confession subsequently repudiated by the club manager...
...example of toughness for its neighbors. Prime Minister Sir Edgar Whitehead mobilized the white population, slapped a strict censorship on the press, and declared a state of emergency; in one 2 a.m. roundup, his cops grabbed 250 members of the African National Congress and stuck them in jail, incommunicado...