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...items of even more interest to the law: 580 grams of marijuana, illegal pills, stolen office equipment, four gallons of nitric acid, gun silencers made from automobile oil filters and Brink's security-guard uniforms used in a robbery of a Sears store. Smith was in prison for that caper when he was charged with the Reinert deaths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pennsylvania Death Trip | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...scenes vary from Portofino to Harlem to the Savoy, but the '20s are coming to a close, the Depression is imminent, and no matter how far the wealthy wander and caper, their journeys are bound to end in sorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Love the Last Blossom on the Plum Tree | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

Michel's latest escape, his fourth since 1973, was at least as spectacular as his 1979 caper, in which he made a getaway after holding up an entire courtroom with a fake gun that he had sculpted out of soap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The Helicopter Caper | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

What the Government intends to prove, Volz declared, is that the defendants used lying, bribery and influence peddling to obtain valuable state certification for phony hospital and nursing- home corporations, which they then sold for some $9 million. Volz did admit that the alleged caper involved some "complex shenanigans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cajun Caper? Louisiana's Governor on trial | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

...company ten times larger than Leasco. In 1969, at the age of 29, he went after a real giant: Chemical Bank, then the seventh largest U.S. bank. In that case, though, Steinberg's reach exceeded his grasp. Says Paul Hallingby, a friend and longtime business associate: "The Chemical caper never had a chance of succeeding. They were an Establishment bank, and they had ways of heading him off." The bank had plenty of old friends and ties and could afford just to ignore the brash young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Who Watch, Wait and Strike | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

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