Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...restored personal freedoms in Cuba, President Fulgencio Batista snatched them back again. Last week the eighth suspension of constitutional guarantees since Fidel Castro began his revolt 15 months ago renewed for 45 days the government's power to censor the press, disperse public meetings, raid homes without warrants, jail citizens without charges...
...week's end, the three Amish youngsters were still at large, and their parents were still in jail. Amish Bishop Samuel Swartzentruber said they would stay there "if it is God's will. We are not giving in." Some non-Amish Wayne County residents sympathized with the industrious, black-clad farmers, with whom they get along well, if distantly. But most of them agree that not even religion should be allowed to cut off children from the opportunity to become businessmen, doctors, lawyers or musicians, if they want to, instead of farmers. Prospect for the next school year...
Such banishments are commonplace in post-revolution Hungary. The police knock, and later a Western visitor notices that some person he has known has disappeared. Most Hungarians tapped by the police leave when ordered, and quietly; the alternative is jail. In the nightclubs patronized by foreigners, the bar girls are new, placed there by the police to watch and listen...
Star Boarder. In Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., jailers kept a special eye on new Convict (for robbery) Arthur Lariviere, who, as "The Great Adano" once won bookings with a circus as a result of a stunt escape from the Sault Ste. Marie jail...
...Partridge in a Pear Tree. In Leeds, England, police were trying to locate Jail Escapee Terence Cutts, 29, who has a flag and an eagle tattooed on his left arm, a heart, a woman's figure and the names "Rose" and "Ruth" on his right arm, a flag and an anchor on the back of his right hand, bluebirds on both thumbs...