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Asking the culprit is not much help. One standard reply is that he is working on an article about shoplifting, and wanted to pull only one job so as to write with authority. In years past, apprehended shoplifters would often break into tears and beg for leniency. Not today. According to the security manager of a State Street store in Chicago: "Their attitude now is one of hostility and belligerence. Their outlook is 'I don't care. I've been there before.' And there's more violence-just the other day one of my people...
Health officials and their laboratory experts, using ultrarefined microtechniques, began closing in on the culprit microbes. No doubt many of the illnesses were caused by assorted viruses that have no common names and produce indistinguishable illnesses. But it was almost certain that most of the symptoms resulted from the epidemic spread of influenza viruses. Of these, there are two main types, A and B. The B type appears to be stable and causes outbreaks of moderate severity every two to four years. On the other hand the A types are highly unstable and mutate unpredictably...
...story, such as it is, concerns a black convict named Lake (Raymond St. Jacques) who escapes from prison, where he has spent five years on a trumped-up charge of rape and murder. Lake lights out to bring the real culprit to justice, only to be sidetracked by a jealous psychopath (Kevin McCarthy) who wants him to bump off his wealthy wife (Dana Wynter...
...benefit package negotiated last month, warned that other price changes would be coming from time to time. Aiming a lance at the White House, the company said it was "almost, but not quite universally recognized" that steel prices do not cause inflation, insisted that the cost-of-living culprit lay elsewhere. One place: labor costs, which have risen some 25% over the past ten years, while steel prices have gone up only...
...during the testing process, or 2) someone not connected with the stable gave Dancer's Image an extra dose of Butazolidin. "Someone," said Fuller darkly, "may have gotten to the horse." He demanded an investigation and promised a "large financial reward" for information leading to such a culprit...