Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suspicion and publicity, raise $5,000 bond, and defend himself as justice took its ponderous course. His wife cracked under the strain, and was placed in an institution. Even so, Balestrero was lucky. Between a mistrial and preparations for retrial, the real thief was caught, and confessed to the crime...
NOVEMBER A Cambridge Crime Commission accuses Harvard Criminoligist William McCord of being the local Mafia leader. Atomic submarine the Nautilus is destroyed by an unknown assailant. A Radcliffe senior finds a pot of gold at rainbow's end and walks away from it. "I don't accept presents from a strange Man." The Brattle Theater purchases Radio City...
...Hungary have stirred the Swiss like nothing has in years. Last week, casting traditional impartiality to the winds, Foreign Minister Max Petitpierre told the Swiss Parliament that in Hungary "we have witnessed and are witnessing the cold enslavement, through armed force, arrests and deportations, of a nation whose only crime is to strive for independence. There is not a Swiss worthy of the name who does not realize with horror that something is happening which is a crime against humanity...
...second round of its rebirth. All told, $150 million worth of new buildings are under construction or due to start next year. On the downtown fringes, Pittsburgh is spending another $100 million to clean out the wormy Hill District slums-95 acres of cobbled streets, blighted homes, vice, crime and poverty. Much of it should be completed in time for Pittsburgh's 200th birthday party in 1958. Gateway to Heaven. Of the work already under way, builders are putting the finishing graces on the 16-story State Office Building, sheathed with striking blue aluminum panels; near by, the superstructure...
...Story. In Buffalo, ordered to clear the streets of underworldlings after an outbreak of wrongdoing, police dredged up Randolph Benson, charged him with disorderly conduct after they searched him, found he was equipped with a knife, a length of rubber hose and a volume entitled: The Blue Book of Crime...