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...treatment and allowed slowly to die. If the press had not brought the case to light in 1972, the experiment would have continued. Even after the story broke, federal officials argued for months about whether the government was authorized to give health care to the experiment's survivors; finally, Caper W. Wainbanger '35 who was then Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare) ordered medical treatment...
...opinion of Fleet Street that he should settle down and do his duty. The press pushed Diana as a girlfriend beyond the reality of the situation in the early stages. Whitaker fell in love with her." The merciless over-coverage of Diana (including, Whitaker boasts, an 80-m.p.h. car caper in which he drove alongside the car she was driving while a photographer snapped her picture) showed the English public a maiden so sweet and wistful that the Prince would have seemed a blackguard had he failed to propose...
...horse trailer. Fitzgerald was ordered to lie face down in another van, from which he was freed an hour and at least 40 miles later. But by then the most acclaimed and valuable Thoroughbred in Europe, Shergar, was gone, horsenaped. "It was very neat," said a policeman of the caper...
...caper in Cape Town
...colluding with dishonest employees working inside. Once the account information is in hand, it is no trick to order merchandise over the phone, since this requires the presentation of neither an actual card nor a valid signature. One band of California criminals stole $250,000 in a carbon-paper caper last year, according to an official of California's Crocker National Bank...