Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women's fashions across the U.S. and even to Paris, made Jean Harlow, Katherine Hepburn and Norma Shearer look like haute couture models, put Greta Garbo in sequined slacks. Lynn Fontanne in a white organdy bow that started a national fad, released Joan Crawford from a movie prison in a little basic black dress that any right-thinking woman would have given her eyeteeth...
German-made Tower is technically first-rate, precisioned as a Mercedes, and German-born Actress Palmer is a suave, consummate performer. The camera ranges so fluently through her glass prison it seems a pity that the action it catches is mostly senseless Sturm und Drang...
...working of its constitution and bylaws as well as on all financial transactions, including large payments and loans to officers and staffers. Similar reports are required from management on all payments to union officers and to labor-relation consultants. Maximum penalty: $10,000 fine and a year in prison...
...positions of trust, union offices may not be occupied by Communists; ex-convicts (including those convicted of violating members' rights); leaders who take a loan bigger than $2,000 from union treasuries, embezzle union funds, or have conflicting business interests. Top penalty: $10,000, or one year in prison, or both...
Breaking into Prison. Life in Ecuador for Nate Saint, his trained-nurse wife Marjorie, and their three children was a story of emergencies and hardships that would pale the most jazzed-up TV script. Nate wrote of hairbreadth landings on narrow jungle airstrips that were "like parking a car at 70 miles an hour." Nate's "parish" covered a growing number of Protestant mission stations in eastern Ecuador. "It is our task," he wrote, "to lift these missionaries up to where five minutes in a plane equals 24 hours on foot . . . It's a matter of gaining precious...