Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Typical of the California heisters was Lynne Kilpatrick Swisher, 18, who stuck up a Wells Fargo bank in San Francisco, got away with $456, but turned herself in a week later. She had used the money for a trip to Hawaii and told cops: "It was worth five years in...
A 21-year-old man was picked up by Los Angeles police after he tried to rob two banks by threatening tellers with a baseball bat. A housewife left her two children eating candy at a bus-stop in Hermosa Beach, stuck up a Bank of America branch at toy...
All this, the Lewises claimed, was be cause they had offered their property for sale to Negroes. But local cops had their doubts. For one thing, Walnut had no history whatever of racial discord. For another, evidence indicated that the fire in the Lewis home had not been caused by...
In court, two cops testified that Martinis seemed drunk when arrested. But three other cops said that Martinis appeared to be sober as a judge-or at least a judge's son. During the four-day hearing, the prosecution's case was badly weakened by the cops'...
It was into this reverent hush, two Sabbaths ago, that 500 cheerful American and European Baptists drew up in 20 buses, having come, on tourism bent, through the Mandelbaum Gate from Jordanian Jerusalem. The Orthodox Jews of Mea She'arim were dumfounded with outrage-and none more than a...