Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spent the next day and a half in casual puttering at home. Then, on Sunday afternoon, he announced that he was going on a business trip to Buffalo; he left at 4:30, caught a ferry to Manhattan, and vanished into the stone maze of the big city...
When he picked on the Pacific School of Religion, Parry knew he was down to the bush leagues, and not long for them. Places like Pacific are quiet, but the haul is not likely to be big (the Pacific safe had $105 in it). He picked the spot because he was getting old and tired: he even found it hard working nights. To tell the truth, he summed up, safe robbing wasn't much of a career. "It has no future for a young man," gloomily concluded Lorenzo Parry. Then, thoughtfully, he added: "And no future...
...devout citizens hurried uneasily into the great cathedral and prayed. Others just looked up to the sky and grinned. Children pulled off shoes and pattered gaily in tiny puddles along bustling Jiron Union. Newspapers dusted off their big wooden headline type. Rain had come to Lima. It was only .08 inch (in 90 minutes) but it was the first rainfall in Peru's capital in five years, and the heaviest since a .12-inch shower...
...lead in the case turned up during a police raid on a Havana den. Among the evidence was a coded letter which indicated that a Cuban government official was mixed up in the big-time drug traffic. Last week after he stepped off the plane from Lima, waiting detectives nabbed Rafael Menacho Vicente, 55, Cuban consul to Peru. In his diplomatic pouch was a package containing two pounds of cocaine, worth around $10,000 in the underworld...
...Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger reported that the U.S. was swamped with the biggest influx of cocaine in 20 years. In New York, police in the past six months have seized almost 400 ounces of the stuff, more than in the previous four years. Where it came from was no big problem; the source, said Anslinger, was unquestionably Peru...