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...white van pulled up to the back entrance of Harvey's Resort Hotel-Casino in Stateline, Nev., about 5:30 a.m. one day last week. Out climbed two men in white coveralls who unloaded a gray, steel crate, with a small box on top, shrouded in plastic that was stamped IBM. The men carefully made their delivery to the casino's second-floor executive offices and departed...
Police, FBI agents, the Army's 34th Explosive Ordnance Disposal team and scientists from the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory soon arrived. All day, they gingerly examined the crate, which had twelve switches on top, and the small box with its 28 switches. They X-rayed the big crate and figured that it contained the equivalent of 1,000 sticks of dynamite; inside the small box was detonating equipment...
...darkened stage, a white-faced clown with bulbous nose, orange woolen wig and baggy red-and-white costume sits at a table reading a large book marked Bible. He eats from a box of popcorn as big as a milk crate. Beside him two mimes in blue leotards do their silent best to act starved. When the clown notices, he merely makes the sign of the cross and calmly resumes reading-and eating. Now a large banner unfurls upstage saying FEED THE HUNGRY! At last the clown gets the message and hands small bags of popcorn to the mimes. They...
...partner in a modeling agency named My Fair Lady. For five years before Tupper came along, she had also been Jacobson's mistress. Two weeks after Cain broke off with Jacobson, Tupper's charred body, shot seven times and stabbed repeatedly, was found in a burning crate in a Bronx lot. Jacobson was reportedly seen speeding away from the lot in a yellow Cadillac. Arrested the next day, he was found guilty of second-degree murder last April...
That night, police said, the man crawled out of the box, knocked the padlocks off eleven other storage containers, rifled them and put his jack and the broken locks inside the crate. Then he replaced the locks with new ones so that nothing would seem to have been disturbed. One theory was that he had intended to put the cement blocks in the crate too, so that it would weigh as much as when first carried in to the storage area. The clever thief's plan had been to walk out of the bank, then have the box delivered...