Word: jailed
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Personal Service. In Celina, Ohio, Sheriff Bruce Barber was fined $100 for contempt of court after explaining why he shut down the jail and released four prisoners: "My budget is inadequate to run the jail in a proper manner...
Coming soon: Judge Morris' decision on whether Goldfine may purge himself by answering the unanswered questions, or whether he will be sentenced (maximum: a year in jail and a $1,000 fine) for contempt of Congress...
...Sometimes the press takes up specific cases with a hue and cry, like that of Crichel Down, where a farmer defied the War Department's right in time of peace to hold onto land commandeered in time of war. or pleads for a Mrs. Christos, who went to jail for earning milk money for her children while on the dole (TIME, June 15). But often an M.P. has either too much work or not enough spunk to see an issue through, and the press is quick to shift to fresher news...
Last week, as crowds outside the Lugazi police station chanted, "We want to see the cannibals," the widow and her three accomplices were in jail pending inquiry into a murder charge. Said one of the defendants matter-of-factly: "It was the sweetest meat I ever tasted...
Dame Margot Fonteyn, 40, top ballerina of Covent Garden's Royal Ballet, has not been home much recently. Her most publicized wandering pirouetted her smack into "the presidential suite" of a Panamanian jail after her husband, ex-Panamanian Diplomat Roberto ("Tito") Arias, took her along on a comic-opera invasion attempt aimed at overthrowing Panama's government with a motley seven-man force (TIME, May 4). She was booted from the country next day. Last week Covent Garden's directors announced that the West's greatest ballerina will no longer be billed...