Word: jails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Corporal John Keith Waller, British Army, who deserted to Berlin's Eastern sector a year ago as a "fighter for peace" but returned to his unit in West Berlin last week, "fed up" with Communism. This week a British court-martial sentenced him to two years in jail...
...Magsaysay was sure that the Huks would try to celebrate by an attack. Magsaysay s men caught 40 Huks as they stole into town to try to free six members of the Philippine Communist Party's politburo who had been captured last fall. He put the 40 in jail, sent the six politburocrats on a cruise in Manila Bay, where they would be safely out of reach of any more rescuers, and where, he said bitingly, "they can fish in peace." But while Magsaysay was busy in Manila, the Huks struck elsewhere...
Actor Parks had one more question to answer; the committee wanted to know the names of his Communist cellmates. Replied Parks: "Don't present me with the choice of going to jail or crawling through the mud by being an informer." The committee agreed to force no public disclosures, instead closed the doors and let Parks finish his confession in private, later let the press know that he had named a dozen other movie people as members of his cell. After the closed hearings, Parks rode off to face his future, "doubtful, after appearing before the committee, whether...
VerMeulen closed down to avoid a possible $100 fine or 30 days in jail near his final examination time. He felt that the other was unfair to Yale students none of whom will now be able to get around the standard charge of $1.10 per haircut...
...secondary villains-Joe Adonis, a sleek and handsomely sullen hood, and burly Bookmaker Frank Erickson-glowered briefly at the committee, answered no important questions, and departed, Adonis to his comfortable home in New Jersey, Erickson to his jail cell, where he is serving two years for bookmaking. The stage was set for the leading heavy of the piece...