Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arrested in their Manhattan apartment on charges of spying for Russia, Lithuanian-born Jack Soble and his wife Myra replied "not guilty" when a clerk at the federal courthouse last February asked them how they pleaded. Last week, pale, haggard but looking strangely relaxed, the Sobles switched their plea to guilty on a count of conspiring with Soviet agents to "receive and obtain" U.S. defense secrets. Maximum sentence: $10,000 fine and ten years' imprisonment...
...month interval, a lot had happened to Jack Soble, 53, and his Russian-born wife, 53 (TIME, Feb. 4). They found out that while they were spying, the FBI had been on their trail. And when they faced the prospect that the Justice Department's case against them might well be unbeatable, they had to face up to the grim fact that in 1954 Congress raised the maximum penalty for peace time espionage from 20 years' imprisonment to death...
There was, it seemed, plenty to tell. The Sobles, said their lawyer, are "two anguished individuals" manipulated by "the long arm of Russia" and "suffering intensely from experiences they had gone through before they emigrated to this country and since." Jack Soble, also known as Peter, Abram and, in earlier years, Abromas Sobolevicius, arrived in the U.S. in 1941 by way of Japan. He and Myra became U.S. citizens in 1947. Soble worked as a dealer in animal hair and bristles, but behind his façade of respectability, the U.S. charged, he served the Kremlin as a spymaster...
...from closing the case, the Sobles' admission that they had obtained U.S. defense secrets raised more questions: Who gave them the secrets? To whom were they passed? Presumably, behind the locked and guarded doors of a grand-jury chamber in Manhattan, Jack and Myra Soble were singing the answers...
Junta and Sears won this contest, two sets to one, to remain top team on coach Jack Barnaby's ladder. The rest of the afternoon's action merely served as exercise for the top six singles players and as practice for fourth, fifth and sixth doubles teams...