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...Light Bandit. Over a span of several days within the next month, a gunman in a grey Ford coupe equipped with a red spotlight prowled lovers' lanes in outlying sections of Los Angeles. Flashing the spotlight as if he were a police man, he pulled up to parked cars, robbed the couples at pistol point. Local news papers called him "the Red Light Bandit." On two occasions, he forced a woman to get into his car and perform, as the indictments later charged, an "unnatural sex act." One of the victims, a girl of 17, was also forced...
...account, he stole food and cars at 15, brought heartbreak to his mother, was committed four times to reform schools, went on to San Quentin (robbery, assault) in 1941. Seven years later, he was arrested and identified by three of his victims as the "Red Light Bandit" who drove into lovers' lanes in Los Angeles County with a red spotlight flashing (much as police cars would) and robbed the couples that he found parked there. Of the 18 separate counts filed against him, five included the kidnaping of two women, crimes of sex perversion against each of them...
...Eladia Mejia is no little old lady in a rocking chair. She is stout, straight-backed, witty and indomitable, and her passion is teaching mestizo peasant children in the bandit-infested mountains of western Colombia. Since this requires schools, she builds them-partly with her own hands. Her record: 129 schools, plus four hospitals and a half-completed orphanage that will cover four city blocks when it is finished. "I am no architect," says she. "But I have the lines of four walls in my head, and with that I do a devil...
Later, as the bandits sat eating Senora Salas' potato omelets, a four-man Guardia Civil patrol stealthily surrounded the farmhouse and sat waiting for reinforcements. A barking dog alerted the bandits, and in the first exchange, two bullets caught Sabater in the foot and thigh. Sabater ordered Salas and his wife to safety in the attic, calmly dressed his own wounds with a first-aid kit he carried and, firing from windows, held off the green-uniformed policemen all afternoon. But troopers were converging on the farmhouse from every direction, and when darkness fell, the trapped bandit chief decided...
...about life on the frontier in feudal Japan. With good taste and a vivid sense of the possibilities of photography, director Akira (Rash-omon) Kuosowa has told a lusty story of seven samurais who, skilled in fighting and adept in Zen, organize a little farming village against an annual bandit raid...