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...Farouk never anted up a piaster of the $28,700 he owed. Meanwhile, Farouk was having mouthpiece trouble: a Cairo court, with Narriman's divorce suit on its docket, refused to hear Farouk's Syrian lawyer, who finally dug up an Egyptian attorney who was willing to plead the porcine playboy's case...
...Justice Department did plead guilty to Fritchey's other charge, that it had fired Vigil. It said that Vigil originally agreed to turn his office over to his Republican successor (as 67 other holdover U.S. attorneys have done) but changed his mind after he had won the Smaldone case and refused to resign. Then Washington fired...
...witch was ever burned in Massachusetts. The only deviation from the hanging procedure same in the case of an 81-year-old man, Giles Cory. Arraigned on witchcraft charges before the Salem court, Cory steadfastly refused to answer any of the judges questions, even disregarding their demand that he plead guilty or not guilty. The magistrate made short shrift of the old man, however; he was pressed to death with huge stones for his stubborn silence...
...Attorney General grants witness immunity from prosecution and therefore from incrimination; 3) witness is asked the question again, but can no longer plead the Fifth Amendment because his answer cannot incriminate him; 4) if witness then refuses to answer he would be subject to a contempt charge...
...consent, he enlisted in the U.S. Army. Arlie said he wanted to see the world. He was sent to Korea. He fought there, and was taken prisoner by the Chinese Reds. families of the 23 "progressives" "could send to Korea. Eighteen families, including the Pates, accepted the opportunity to plead with their sons to come home. Fortnight ago, Howard Pate, 47, his wife Zady, Arlie's 18-year-old sister, Beulah, and Mrs. Jeanette Daley, Arlie's aunt, were driven up to station WCBS in Springfield...