Word: crooke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WILLIAM GILDAY JR., 41. Also a participant in STEP and a former inmate at Walpole, where he met Bond, Gilday, from all indications, was more a seasoned small-time crook than a revolutionary. He had spent the past seven years in prison for robbing a variety store, and has a police record dating from 1955. There was some speculation that Gilday was cut in on the bank job not because of his politics but because of his criminal expertise...
...plot could have been lifted from a 1933 story conference at Warner Brothers. Siffredi (Alain Delon) is a petty crook, all bile and brilliantine, who goes looking for his girl friend Lola (Catherine Rouvel) after his latest prison term has expired. Stalking the streets of Marseille, he finally finds her happily biding her time with a nattily tailored sharpie named Capella (Jean-Paul Belmondo). Siffredi immediately initiates repossession proceedings. Capella only grins. Siffredi glowers. Capella still grins. Then, of course, they fight. After knocking each other around for a while, over pool tables, into mirrors, across bars, that sort...
...Heath was smiling broadly and talking with enthusiasm. "That was the moment," a friend recalls. Someone started cautiously laying out half a dozen bottles of champagne. Four hours later, Heath was sitting in the bar of the Crook Log Hotel when television brought him the evening's first return: a 4% swing to the Tories in Guildford. Heath marched happily out of the bar and drove a mile to the town's Territorial Army drill hall, where the votes were being counted. Inside the hall, Bexley's mayor grabbed Heath's hand and pumped it in congratulation: a 7% swing...