Word: deliveryman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since posing as a deliveryman is a favorite trick of burglars, many luxury apartment houses require the doorman to accept all packages. After a number of sanguinary holdups, one fatal, bus drivers have no access to cash (passengers must use tokens or take scrip in change). Some athletic events in public high schools have been canceled or played unannounced because crowds have gone on the rampage at earlier games. "A lot of us-and I was one-kept saying that it couldn't happen here," says Mrs. Tom Wicker, wife of the New York Times columnist...
...sure enough, Bailey offered a new story. Marilyn, he said, was killed by the jealous wife of an unnamed neighbor who either was, or attempted to be, her lover. Another man presumably struck Sheppard. Bailey produced a new witness, Jack Kraken, a bakery deliveryman, who said he once saw Marilyn giving a key to a man with whom she was having coffee in her kitchen. Who was the man? The jury was not allowed to hear; nor did even-handed Judge Tally admit Sheppard's post-murder statement to police naming Marilyn's three "spurned lovers...
...more old-fashioned novelist-the invention of a story and the creation of character. In this book, the character writes the story. He is Driss ben Hamed Charhadi, a North African Arab whose language is Moghrebi (an Arabic dialect), and who has been shepherd, baker's deliveryman, carpenter and kif salesman. With the encouragement of Bowles and the help of a tape recorder, Charhadi narrated the life of a fatherless child growing up in the boondocks of French Morocco. A horrible life it is-on the move, short of food, rarely with a job, and always subject to thievery...
...agent in France, posing as a gangland dope racketeer, arranged a buy from an international narcotics ring. French police closed in just as a batch of heroin was delivered to the agent. The deliveryman shot his way free, but he and the gang's ringleaders were arrested later. > In late 1962, agents got wind of a pair of brothers who were peddling heroin in New York-one taking orders in his East Harlem clothing and toy store, the other delivering the "junk" in his taxicab. An undercover agent made a buy of 102 gm. of heroin...