Word: incommunicado
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...Santiago, Chile, firm of Brusadelli & Manni, suing General Motors Acceptance Corp. for having called them bankrupt, last week had genial Lory K. Bethune, Chilean manager for General Motors, jailed for "interrogation." Mr. Bethune, of Atlanta, Ga., was held incommunicado, denied counsel. It required two heated notes from U. S. Ambassador William Smith Culbertson to get him out of jail. Subsequently Mariano Puga Vega, a lawyer for General Motors, challenged the chief attorney for Brusadelli & Manni to a duel...
Eventually news-sleuths saw Mr. Young. Arriving in Manhattan after a mysterious absence in Arizona, Mr. Young held himself virtually incommunicado, merely said he had not had time to confer with "anyone...