Word: burglars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Correction: I am not a Watergate "burglar," but a conspirator...
Across the U.S., the rising fear of crime has turned the once sluggish home-security business into a runaway growth industry. Sales of burglar alarms and other residential safeguards have zoomed to nearly $900 million a year, up from $500 million in 1979, and are expanding at the dazzling annual rate of about 30%. Firms in the field range from industrial giants like Honeywell (1982 sales: $4.6 billion) to one-person outfits selling burglar alarms...
...power to defy the gods. He has studied Coolidge ever since. Last week Garvey published the story of how Coolidge, while living in the New Willard Hotel waiting for Mrs. Harding to leave the White House, woke up and found a cat burglar rifling his clothes. Coolidge talked the young man out of the crime, lent him $32 for a meal and transportation home, and sneaked him out the window so the Secret Service would...
...Easter Monday, more than a dozen men carrying shotguns and pistols climbed the 12-ft. wall of a Security Express compound in East London, eventually making off with about $10.5 million in bank notes. A month later, a lone cat burglar stole into Waddesdon Manor, a National Trust estate in Buckinghamshire, and carried away about $1.5 million worth of antiques, jewel-encrusted gold snuff boxes, figurines and rings from the famous Rothschild collection. In South London, a burglar climbed to the roof of Dulwich College, smashed a skylight, descended into the art gallery and used a crowbar to wrench from...
...night of March 3 by an associate, and police have determined that he was beaten to death by an intruder. No suspects have yet been found, but Detective Dan Settle of the Los Angeles Police Department said yesterday that he believes Ivers was killed by an "opportunistic burglar...