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...officially pegged at $1.11, the tourist can get it on the black market for anywhere from 25? to 66?. But it is also dangerous, as two young American tourists discovered last week. Hauled before a Leningrad court were Buel Ray Wortham, 25, of North Little Rock, Ark., and Craddock M. Gilmour, 24, of Salt Lake City, who had made the mistake of talking about their black-market dealings in the presence of their Intourist guide. In addition, Wortham was accused of stealing a "national treasure" from his Leningrad hotel room - a 22-in. statue depicting a Russian bear that...
...even this contrivance can be overlooked; Miss Rutherford's uproarious detecting saves all. She early flings her gauntlet to the official investigator, Inspector Craddock, (When he refuses to admit that old Enderby may have been done in, Miss Marple swings her cloak 'round her shoulder like a Caesar crossed and announces imperiously, "I shall have to investigate this myself!") and does not retrieve it until the last bit of evidence--symbolized by the plaster of paris mold she carries in her pocket--has fallen into place...
...Call You. In Greensboro, N.C., Charles W. Craddock filed suit for $15,000 damages, claimed his dentist dropped a two-inch root-canal reamer down his throat, told him to "go home and forget about...
...Wine of Etna's hero, hulking, hamhanded Sergeant Craddock, the order to move back into battle was heartbreaking. With war-widowed Graziella, he had discovered a passion which his own wife back in England had denied him. But Graziella got nowhere when she pleaded with him to desert and stay with her. Sergeant Craddock loved honor more. Said he: "I am a soldier. You have known that all the time...
When the ballots were counted, the back-door users had given Laborite Craddock 25,335 votes and a clean-cut victory over Tory Windle who polled 19,313. A third candidate, running on the platform of the moribund Liberal Party which is hoping for a political comeback, was disastrously beaten, got less than 3,000 votes...