Word: jailed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Debarking in Manhattan after a summer in his native Yugoslavia, Sculptor Ivan Mestrovic, 76, told of a visit he had paid to a lifelong friend: Aloysius Cardinal Stepinac, 61, prisoner of the Tito regime (either in jail or under close surveillance) since 1946. The cardinal is in "good spirits and fairly good health," said Mestrovic. Had the cardinal been tortured...
Physically Cheng seemed unaffected by his hermit's existence. But as Ann Arbor police hauled him off to the county jail, his four-year preoccupation with loss of face suddenly vanished. Said he: "I have been a coward. I'm glad I was found...
...arrest of their chiefs and also by the defection of the Praja-Socialists, who used to join them but have been wary since Tibet, the Reds were unable to fill the streets with raging thousands, could muster on successive days only a few hundred, who were carted off to jail still waving red flags and shouting slogans. Communist agitators pleaded with the onlooking crowds to lie in the streets in passive resistance, but won no volunteers...
...tongue-lashings, stern punishments for minor infractions. Nunlist's strictness nearly cost him his life last April, when a discharged guardsman shot him in the neck and shoulder. Before he collapsed, the bleeding colonel disarmed his attacker, who was turned over to the Italian police (the Vatican City jail has been vacant for 20 years, is now used for storage). "It was a brief but violent struggle," said Nunlist, and clamped down all the harder...
...about-London, son of Royal Portrait Painter Simon Elwes; and Shipping Heiress Tessa Kennedy, 21, who traveled 7,000 miles about the Western Hemisphere with Dominic to escape an English court order barring their marriage, married him in Cuba, returned to London where she saw him off to jail to serve 14 days for contempt of court: a son; in London. Name: Cassian Gary...