Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...penniless Syrian immigrant, Jorge Antonio parlayed a friendship with Perón's brother-in-law into a personal fortune close to $215 million. After Perón's downfall in 1955, Antonio and his five friends were packed off to a remote jail 170 miles from the continent's mainland tip. A special warden was assigned to foil escape attempts-at a salary of $86 a month. Jorge took care of that. One night last March the special warden unlocked the prison gates and discreetly disappeared; Jorge and friends got into a waiting yellow Ford station...
Harry S. Ashmore, executive editor of the pro-integration Arkansas Gazette, expressed the feeling of many today when he said that federal troops must be retained until "the mob cannot form or be re-formed because its leaders are in jail or under bond, or both...
With George in jail, the Humphreys lost their mortgaged house and most of their chatteled belongings. But the townsfolk, though they do not make friends casually, rallied to the friends they had made. Neighbors called on Jean, offered shelter for her and her four children, furniture, food. "This," explained one woman, "is not charity. It's just a little help for some neighbors who need it. They were such wonderful people and helped the community in so many ways." Said Jean Humphrey (who plans to continue her dancing classes): "I want to stay here in Worthington...
...built modern Thailand. He is a pensive sort of man, a firm-believer in the predictions of his personal astrologers, and in recent years has indicated often that he would like to retire. But, he would say, "there are only three ways to remove a dictator: by exile, jail or burial...
...hand at turning a quick yen. As a big-time race-track and gambling operator, he made enough to build himself a skyscraper in Tientsin, and when the Communists took over, he was tough enough to endure 2½ years in a Red jail before they extracted all his profits...