Word: jailed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called World Fellowship, Inc., who had refused to produce a list of guests at a fellowship summer camp when asked for it by New Hampshire's Attorney General during an investigation authorized by the state legislature. Ordered by state courts to hand over the list or go to jail, Uphaus appealed, relying heavily on Nelson...
...caught in a thrill burglary, and his parents quietly reimbursed his victims. He dodged jail by joining the army, but the French army, which takes all kinds, shortly dismissed him as "asocial and undesirable." So his parents decided to buy him a couple of bars to run. When the bars failed, they bought him a book shop, hoping that the contagion of handling books might improve his mind. But by that time Georges, who had taken to wearing a shoulder holster and revolver, had already carved out another life on his own. Last week he was one of the most...
...King's next challenge to the brother who had saved his throne came with the recent arrest of Mohammed al Jasir, the scholarly editor of Riyadh's weekly newspaper Al Yamamah (The Dove), who had been casually tossed into jail, in the old way, by King Saud. Feisal heatedly protested that such arbitrary actions infringed on his new powers as Interior Minister. The King stared at him through his thick glasses, lumpily stood his ground. Feisal turned in his resignation...
...civil war and bankruptcy might ruin the land if Feisal stepped down. By last week, after hours of debate, the council had patched together a compromise: the King approved Feisal's budget and Feisal assumed responsibility for the King's debts; Editor al Jasir was freed from jail, and the King conceded the importance of going through channels. Thus Saudi Arabia, still very much a family business, edged another painful inch toward constitutional monarchy, if not toward democracy...
...help tally Aly-who, following ancient Moslem practice, more often than not has no last name-Tunisia has passed a law requiring some 3,000,000 Tunisians with only one name to get another by Sept. 1, 1960. Since he faces a year in jail if he fails to comply, chances are that...