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Last year all but 25 of the city's 500 schools were forced to call on Graham's agents. There were 25 cases of arson, 342 of vandalism, 182 of theft, 947 of burglary, 37 involving such miscellaneous matters as damage to a school lawn. But Graham's cases are steadily dwindling. The number of arrests last week: 24. The weekly average a year...
...Americans, out for a shoot in the highlands, happen on a town named Brigadoon. One of them (Gene Kelly) catches fire from a local lass (Cyd Charisse), but when this arson is revealed to the parson, he raises a difficulty. Brigadoon and everyone in it lie under an enchantment. Only one day out of every hundred years can they spend on earth. At midnight the town will disappear until a morning in the year 2054. If the lover stays, he will disappear too. The Americans go sadly back to New York, but after a couple of weeks at the modern...
Luis Taruc, for eight years the head of the bloody Communist Huk revolt in the Philippine hills, strode into Manila's packed City Hall last week to be tried for rebellion and a string of other crimes including arson, murder, kidnaping and robbery. The defense asked the court to drop seven of the 30 counts against him on the ground that a 1948 presidential amnesty absolved these crimes. The prosecution agreed, even though the seventh count-involving the ambush murder of Aurora Quezon, widow of the onetime President-was committed a full year after the amnesty had been granted...
...worldwide postwar revolt against colonialism last week licked at the foundations of the French empire in North Africa. In Morocco, where the French conquest was not completed until the Riffs were put down in 1926. arson, shootings and bombing killed scores and wounded hundreds. In Tunisia, where French paratroopers are engaged against nationalist guerrillas, French Premier Mendès-France was trying to head off revolt with a belated promise of home rule. Evenin Algeria, a part of metropolitan France and the home of 1,000,000 Frenchmen, the Arab population (8,000,000) is rumbling with discontent...
Traveling Papers. In Steyr, Austria, Fire Brigade Captain Franz Fazeny was convicted of arson after starting three fires in nearby Allhaming, where his girl friend Maria Sadleder lived, just as an excuse to see her more often...