Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least popular Presidents. He even held a dangerously free election in 1952 and .had to stage a secret, red-faced recount when returns ran ten to one against him. But the lesson finally sank in. Last week-with the only possible opposition candidate safely tucked away in jail-Perez Jimenez brazenly turned the scheduled Dec. 15 presidential election into a me-or-nothing plebiscite, a forced vote of confidence in the "New National Ideal," its leader and his rubber-stamp Congress...
Chips Are Down. In Chicago, Donald J. Dalman, 40, was sentenced to three years in jail for writing phony checks on a check-writing machine he won in a poker game...
...independence. In Pakistan, where ten years ago cars were heavily curtained to protect women from the vulgar gaze of men, hundreds of still devout women now drive themselves, unveiled, to work or on their social rounds. In Tunisia, where in 1947 polygamy was accepted practice, a husband landed in jail last April for having defied the law and taken a second wife. In Egypt and Lebanon, Turkey and Syria-where for centuries the life of a woman was described proverbially as "from the womb of her mother to the house of her father, from there to the house...
...Honduras he returned to New London as a reporter for the Telegraph. He was twenty-three, and looking for something to do. Judge Fredrick Latimer, his boss, used to say of him: "If he could only be in one of two places in the town--the church or the jail--I know where I would find...
BIGGEST INSURANCE SCANDAL in Texas history, which has already caused resignation of state insurance commissioner, flock of investigations by grand juries and legislative committees, also resulted in ten-year jail sentence for Texas Promoter Ben-Jack Cage, who started it all with collapse of his multimillion-dollar ICT Insurance Co. Jury convicted Cage for using $100,000 in ICT funds to buy stock that he later credited to his own management company...