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Mixed Emotions. In Salem, Ore., police looked for the burglar who broke into Mrs. Jeanne Hopkins' home, ripped up linoleum between the living room and the dining room, opened a can of varnish and varnished an old newspaper, made a batch of French toast in the kitchen, baked a fudge cake from a recipe on a Betty Crocker Mix box, stole a ten-inch pie plate...
...such duplicity, said Old Soldier Navarre, was that he had to lay down an astonishing rule in Indo-China: "Paris must never be kept informed. We knew, in fact, that any military operation known in Park, would not surprise the enemy. It was?about like handing the burglar the combination of the safe he was going to crack. Treason was everywhere...
...still at large). O'Keefe's story was no surprise to the FBI and police. For five years they have been frustratingly familiar with many of the details of the crime, and all but one of the eleven gang members (Fugitive James Ignatius Flaherty, 44, a bartender, burglar and escape artist) have been primary suspects. In 1953 a federal grand jury refused to indict the ten for lack of legally admissible evidence. A year later Joseph F. Dineen, 57, a veteran Boston police reporter, wrote under the guise of "fiction" a magazine article and a book giving...
Dilettante. In Salzgitter, Germany, after sneaking into an office building and slugging Night Watchman Kurt Dittbombee, 57, a burglar remarked, "I beg your pardon, this is the first time I've done such a thing," bandaged his victim's cuts, departed with...
Preventive War. In Los Angeles, Roy Campbell, 28, warily approached Brad's Cafe, which he had been caught looting four times before, noted another burglar at work, called police and pleaded: "Get out here quick and arrest this guy, or I know who you'll pick up tomorrow...