Word: jails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vice President Nixon is truly the old hellcat when he says [Oct. 13]: "The only way we could get the crooks out of the Truman Administration was to put them in jail." What are Goldfine and Adams doing running around loose...
...Khan Noon, said the government, admitted that he was holding 3,000 tons of wheat in his private warehouse. Two other ex-ministers hurriedly told the government that they had wheat hoards of 6,250 tons and 1,500 tons respectively. Former Defense Minister Mohammed Ayub Khuhro languished in jail on black-market charges, and a local magistrate refused him bail...
...Pals. In Tuscumbia, Ala., Prisoner Herman Byrd cut through the jail wall on his second escape try in three weeks, left a note to Sheriff Raymond Wheeler: "Gone again, Raymond old buddy, I hate to do this but it looks like I have got to go. I hope to have better luck this time," clambered through his hole, surrendered to deputies who had heard him hacking away and were waiting on the spot...
...this autobiographical novel) began with the Spanish Civil War. At the age of three he saw corpses in the streets of Madrid, an omen of the dread commonplaces that would haunt his boyhood. Though his mother was a militant left-wing journalist, the Communists shortly clapped her into jail. His father, a social-climbing Frenchman who detested his wife's politics, had left for France before the war. But when the Loyalists lost, mother and son threw themselves on his untender mercies. When they arrived in France, he met them in a crowd of other refugees. Ignoring...
Cambridge police apprehended the men shortly after the incident, since a passer-by had taken down the license number of their car. Two of the men are being detained in the Cambridge city jail, while the third, a student at the M.I.T. night school, was released on $1,700 bail...