Word: capered
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...caper is the fact that travel agencies, weary of handling different tickets for some 40 U.S. airlines, in 1965 began using a single form that can be filled out for any flight on any carrier. Crooks liked the idea too-and heisted 5,000 blanks last winter from three agencies in New York and California. The hot tickets are complete with forged agency stamps and authentic air-linese ("ORD" for Chicago's O'Hare Airport, "FCO" for Rome's Fiumicino Airport). One turned up for an around-the-world trip valued...
...shots-of a man bicycling alone across a huge airstrip, a confrontation with the enemy in an echoing, empty marble mansion. To no avail. As in many another amateurish spy film, Sinatra and company have forgotten to look for the enemy within-a soggy scenario that gummed up the caper from the start...
...Phillip Caper, a Harvard resident physician who organized the heal-in, announced that the 450 house officers -- who come from Harvard, Boston University, and Tufts medical schools -- had decided to accept a "program of salary increases" which the executive committee of the Greater Boston Hospital Council worked out earlier...
...scene after scene, the film accurately portrays the major sequences of the crime: the initial holdup at London airport to bankroll the big caper; the carefully planned mail call in which not a pound note was overlooked, and the only injury was suffered by a locomotive engineer who proved unexpectedly belligerent; the foolish, post-heist swaggering of the thieves; the burial of the loot in such out-of-the-way places as a church graveyard; Scotland Yard's massive descent upon the scent. At film's end, a voice ominously booms the warning that some of the robbers...
...serve as the Cambridge outlet for the Fugs records. Stollman will pay a commisson on sales and guarantee all court costs when the student is arrested. The plan obviously has great publicity value for ESP Disk Ltd. At the same time, he cheerfully suggests, it's a potentially great caper. Money, Fame, Excitement. A day in court; probably more...