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...through the night, the guards made their rounds. At 7:15 next morning, the 264 remaining Alcatraz inmates stood at their cell doors to be counted. It was then that the dummies were discovered...
...three were complete scoundrels-men of violence, bank robbers and chronic, accomplished escape artists, serving 10-15 years in Alcatraz. the U.S.'s famed maximum-security prison island in San Francisco Bay. They were also men of determination and ingenuity, and they may have become the first ever to successfully escape from The Rock...
...convicts were Frank Lee Morris, 35, and brothers John Anglin. 32, and Clarence Anglin, 31. With an IQ of 133,* ;Morris was undoubtedly the trio's mastermind-and to escape from Alcatraz he had need for real, if perverted, intelligence. The island got its name-Isla de los Alcatraces, meaning Isle of the Pelicans - from the 18th century Spaniards, and only pelicans have ever been free to come and go easily. At one time Alcatraz held military prisoners; later it became a domicile for such eminent civilians as Al Capone and "Machine Gun" Kelly. Many have tried to escape...
...unless and until the bodies bob up in the water, there would remain the possibility of a successful escape. One woman, for example, reported seeing three men on a raft; police gave it a good try, but found neither men nor raft. And, as for the chagrined officials of Alcatraz, they had learned at least one lesson from the tablespoon trio: start counting the silver before, not after, the guests leave...
...chief, Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, an old friend considered responsible for giving Nasser bad advice during the Syrian fiasco. The army shake-up so far has brought imprisonment or house arrest to an estimated 400 officers, many of whom have been sent to El Dakhla. a sand-rimmed Alcatraz in the desert wastes of the upper Nile. There they are joined by growing numbers of civilians, imprisoned for anti-Nasser sympathies. Government spies are everywhere. One Mme. Badrawi spent half an hour at Cairo's swank Automobile Club denouncing Nasser and provoking other society matrons to be equally...