Word: jailed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...profitable "positive neutrality" is tough, bald Prime Minister Mohammed Daoud, 50. Cousin to Afghanistan's figurehead King Mohammed Zahir Shah, Daoud took over as Prime Minister six years ago, deals with everything from high policy to trivial administrative details. Hard-working and ironfisted, he is quick to jail even his own Cabinet ministers if they step out of line...
Died. William H. Werner, 69, chiropractor who rallied his colleagues against the American Medical Association, in 1931 served a six-month jail sentence for practicing medicine without a license, on his release was honored at a testimonial dinner by 500 friends; of a hemorrhage; in Columbus...
Chance to Break In. In Djakarta, Indonesia, Police Inspector M. Husin complained to the city government that Chinese convicted of minor offenses were paying substitutes high wages to serve their jail sentences for them...
...five teenagers who tried, unsuccessfully to rape her, pretty Alba Sbrighi, 19, had stabbed and killed one of her assailants with a rusty jackknife. Popular opinion was solidly behind Alba, who is now at liberty pending trial for murder. (The four remaining youths who attacked her are in jail.) But opinion was divided on Jesuit Rotondi's talk interpreting Alba' act in terms of Christian principle...
...this climate of semantic "moderation," economic proposals that might have sent people to jail not long ago and are still denounced as dangerously radical, find remarkable acceptance within the College community. Harvard Square has not been treated to a healthy radical pamphlet in years, it is true, and even private discussion of politics has shrunk to an alarming minimum. But in the libraries and lecture halls, students are quietly absorbing the economic and political beliefs of those whom most "conservatives" bitingly call the "left-wingers...