Word: capers
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...predictably unpredictable Harvard fencing team pulled off its wildest caper of the season yesterday, coming within an eyelash of upsetting perennial Ivy champion Columbia before losing in the final bout of the match...
TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT is a very foolish, fond old movie. Written by an aging Graham Greene and directed by an aged George Kukor, it is altogether an old man's work--an embrace of a glamorous era long dead, a last grand grinning caper through it. Whether it lays claims to any purpose beyond sheer diversion is a mystery, and Greene's novel lacks a clue...
...gone. According to police forms, the officer officially responsible for some of the heroin's removal (although there is evidence his signature was forged) was Detective Joseph Nunziatta, who killed himself with his own revolver last March after being questioned by federal agents. In any event, the caper underscored the archaic inefficiency of police procedures. It showed why local forces have such a difficult time keeping ahead of organized crime, which probably instigated the horse thievery...
...plan to install teleguidance systems for some German rockets based at Helwan in Nasser's Egypt. The second sends a brash young German reporter searching for a former SS captain and war criminal who turns up alive and devilishly deep in West German industry and the rocket caper...
...criminal's shoes. Still, the Home Office, which encouraged Greenwood in his research, has hopes that the technique will prove useful to detectives. Electrostatic shoeprints, for instance, could give some hint of the size and sex of a culprit, reveal how many people were involved in a caper and even allow police to trace their movements...