Word: incommunicado
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...none: it once meant days on end without showers, air conditioning or stationary sleep. But the new prop-stop technique creates tighter, more ambitious travel schedules and a clutter of motor cade side trips, makes it far tougher to get a story written-and to file between the incommunicado hours aloft...
Navy Secretary Francis ("Rowboat") Matthews was furious when he learned about Burke's Op-23. He ordered Navy inspectors to raid Burke's offices. They descended late one afternoon and held Burke and his staff incommunicado all night while they searched through the files for secret papers (they found none). A few weeks later, Matthews drew a red line through Burke's name on a list of promotions to rear admiral; it was back on the next list after a press outcry and the personal intervention of Admiral Forrest Sherman, the new Chief of Naval Operations, with...
Last week Noel and Herta Field popped back into sight as the Hungarian government announced their release from political prison. The Fields' reaction was typically "arch-individualistic"-instead of dashing for freedom, they elected to repair to a Hungarian hospital and hole up, incommunicado. Hermann, released with apologies three weeks earlier by Poland with the admission that it had all been a terrible mistake, flew to Zurich, where CIA agents slapped a cloak of security around him and hustled him off to a secret reunion with his wife. No one could yet be sure whether the Fields, individually...
Final Freedom. As though sheer numbers had not already strained the controversial custom of asylum, the guests abused it further. Violating conventions that require them to stay incommunicado, they phoned, received visitors, talked through doors and windows. Money and arms were passed in and out. The new government, convinced that the cash had been filched from the treasury, tried to stop the traffic with a warning to the ambassadors concerned, finally ringed the embassies with cops...
Although the British consulate in New York readily granted the necessary extension, the student was deained incommunicado for almost three days, in the Boston detention center, and as a result was late for the opening of his classes at a large mid-western University...