Word: brink
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Chicago was the setting for another sort of dubious achievement last week: the largest cash theft in American history. Until then the all-time record belonged to the perpetrators of the 1962 Plymouth, Mass., mail-truck robbery, who stole $1.55 million in cash, and of the 1950 Brink's holdup in Boston, where $1.2 million of the $2.78 million haul was in cash. The profitable target in Chicago was the fortress-like facility of Purolator Security, Inc., one of the nation's largest armored-car and guard-service companies...
Portugal's fragile revolutionary government was still intact last week following ten days of political tensions that threatened to bring the country to the brink of civil war. Nonetheless, it had lost its first hero and a good deal of its innocence. General António de Spínola, 64, the hero-general of the Portuguese revolution, split with the young leftist officers who engineered the April coup and resigned as provisional President. In an emotional farewell address on television, Spínola criticized many of the government's policies and warned that they would result...
...children to want these same things. Slocum--whose name suggests male menopause--has no sense of identity; he doesn't know precisely what he wants. Yet Rorschach tests show that his ability to see the whole picture will certainly lead to success. He is a man living on the brink of the abyss; he displays not only schizophrenic symptoms, but quadrophonic possibilities...
...wage employees have formed a local of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Although no private universities have clerical unions yet, at least three insituations--MIT, Harvard, and the Harvard Medical School--have union organizing committees, and "a couple of others are right on the brink," Nussbaum said...
Rather Ashamed. Last week Nichol did what he had earlier threatened to do: he dismissed all charges (three of assault, one each of larceny and conspiracy) against the two defendants. "It's only fair to say I am now over the brink," declared the exasperated judge. What pushed Nichol over was Kurd's refusal to allow the case to be decided by only 11 jurors after the twelfth became ill. "I'm rather ashamed that the Government was not represented better in this case," said Nichol in the course of an hour-long denunciation of the prosecution...