Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Southern conservatives would never vote for a bill containing such a clause. If Bolling could keep his civil-rights ploy undiscovered until past the parliamentary deadline for amendments, he could then reveal its presence and split the ranks of Southern conservatives. Craftily, Rayburn's strategists laid a booby trap for Southerners who were routinely hunting for civil-rights hookers by leaking a phony tip to Columnist Drew Pearson that the hooker was in Section 102. Pearson dutifully printed the news, and the Southerners who rushed to read that section soon relaxed-no civil-rights stuff there...
...Palm Springs, and its franchise passed from hand to hand like the Hope diamond, bringing bad luck to everyone who held it. But under the direction of Tallent-appointed Police Chief Robert ("Doc") Morton, an ex-chiropractor, Cabazon quickly won and richly deserved a reputation as the worst speed trap in Southern California. Last year traffic tickets brought in $27,985, while all business license fees returned only $5,817. Explains Morton, who has since broken bitterly with Tallent: "It was all Tallent's doing. He demanded a minimum of eight tickets per officer...
...tool of Fidel Castro's battlefield victory last week was a crafty, U.S.-born double agent who worked so smoothly that he lured Castro's enemies into the open at home and conned a Dominican invasion plane into a trap in central Cuba, nipping the first major rebellion against the seven-month-old regime...
Next night the C46 returned, flown by Colonel José Antonio Soto, Batista's personal pilot, and carrying nine anti-Castro rebels. From near by, Castro himself happily joined the cries of "Down with Fidel!"-it was such a well-baited trap. As soon as the rifles, ammunition, hand grenades and submachine guns were unloaded, Morgan's men clapped the dumfounded invaders under arrest. In a flurry of gunfire from the plane, two of the invaders and two of Morgan's men were killed...
...more explosive ground now, she gets so chummy with the Gestapo that they try to set her to spying out the racial history of one of her new friends, a suspected Jewess. The trap, of course, snaps on Eva herself. The next stop is the Auschwitz concentration camp. Nesting at the end of the line for Eva are true love and a family in Israel. From the moment she bounces into view, no reader can doubt that her ending will be upbeat...