Word: jails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arizona: Riding in Senator Barry Goldwater's wake. Republicans turned a predicted loss into an unexpected gain, elected Republican Paul Fannin, 51, over State Attorney General Robert Morrison, whose youthful jail term (for bad checks) got plenty of campaign publicity...
...North's Sardauna, not wishing to relinquish any of his own territory, vetoed the idea. Nor did he like the plan for a centralized police force under the federal government: he much preferred to use his own force, which, answerable only to him, can pop a man in jail with no questions asked...
Last week the Ankara Court of Appeals upheld jail sentences for five more newsmen, including Managing Editor Nihat Subasi of the daily Ankara Ulus, official organ of the opposition Republican People's Party, and Managing Editor Tarik Halulu of the weekly newsmagazine Akis. Since the first press-gag law was passed in 1954, a score of newsmen have been imprisoned for crimes ranging from criticism of Menderes' financial policies to the suggestion that the Premier married for money. What is more, Menderes has suspended publication of Akis, has even dared to close down Ulus, the newspaper founded...
From his exile in the Canary Islands, ex-Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla had flown home to Bogota, gambling that the fledgling government would never dare throw a former army boss in jail. He misjudged his opponents. While Rojas held court to a handful of admirers in the town house of a friend, Colombia's Senate calmly went ahead drafting indictments for corruption. One well-documented case revolved around Rojas' intervention to clear one of his cronies who was caught smuggling cattle into the country. The others were straight from bank and government records: that Rojas and his friends...
...five shillings in his pocket. Slowly, as the Irish say, it is "let on" that Peter was a "dismantled Roman wreck," having studied unsuccessfully for the priesthood; that his father was a seaman, his mother a pious termagant, his brother a "great, rearing, clumsy bucko." Why was Peter in jail? The question involves a real novelist's art-the reverse of the whodunit, which is to disclose the crime and disguise the motive. Halfway through the book, when all the motives are clarified, Peter's crime is disclosed: he has killed a woman and stuffed her mouth with...