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...brick and stucco bank branch on East Broadway in Tucson has only four tellers' windows. But it is the Tucson cash center for the First National Bank of Arizona, the state's second largest bank. Nearby branches holding more cash than their prescribed limits send the surplus there, and any enterprising robber could have learned the branch's role...
Larry Austgen, 31, of South Holland, Ill., is a contractor by trade, but a gambler by nature. Two years ago, Austgen built his first speculative house in suburban Chicago's posh Plum Valley: a luxury 2,400-sq.-ft. brick home guaranteed, he thought, to have the buyers lining up. Wrong. By the time it was built in August 1979, soaring mortgage rates and a souring real estate market had made a lemon of Austgen's plum. The house, appraised by realtors at $147,000, sat unsold for more than 18 months. Then Austgen had a sporting proposition...
...what about the soap from Krasnodar's much vaunted factory? Following a local tip that he "go to the Black Hole, Dorofeyev found a 10-ft. breach in the factory's brick wall, through which workers peddled pilfered bars of the precious commodity for $7.50 a case. Security at the plant was so lax that Dorofeyev managed to parade right out the main gate, his pockets bulging with ill-gotten goods, without drawing more than an indifferent glance from the guards. The moral of the tale for Soviet shoppers: if you want clean hands, grease some palms...
Halfway up the narrow road toward the campus we finally figured out where we were, and a little of our excitement returned. This was, after all, practically a homecoming for us; we had relived the days in the red-brick dormitories and grey-concrete gymnasium, had dissected relationships between class album pictures, and had witnessed over and over again the horror of missing last-second free throws again archrival Middlesex...
...owners of the Finca Florencia, the powerful family that built the plantation is still a ghostly presence. They revere the memory of Angel, the patriarch who founded the finca in the late 1880s and built the big rustic house with its brick pillars and its view reaching from tin-roofed barns to stone walls enclosing acre after acre of lush coffee bushes. For 60 years, the plantation prospered under Angel and his grandson Carlos. Then Carlos turned over the Finca Florencia to his four sons, and by the 1950s the farm was in the hands of a hired manager...