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...dumb and ignorant criminal portrayed on the radio (who got the 75 Gs, but got caught in a two-way radio police trap), that he, the teenager, could easily get away with it ... Lights flash on; bells ring; he visualizes $75,000 stacks of greenbacks stashed in his bureau drawer. He says to himself, 'It's about time somebody with a little intelligence went after one of those easy jobs.' " The end result? "Another kid heading for skid row to acquire a gun and a short-wave car radio -and either a prison sentence or a dose...
...have been impossible 30 years ago," noted one B.U. professor. In those days, he said, it was not fashionable in educational circles to talk about religion. The speeches at the institute amply demonstrated the change in the times. Some of the addresses were out of theology's top drawer, e.g., laymen were left to struggle along as best they could through Roman Catholic Philosopher Jacques Maritain's expert juggling of "essence" and "complexus," and Professor Florovsky's description of theology as "apophatic." In stressing a plea for a new social welfare system of economics somewhere between laissez...
...passing their exile in Mexico City, eating high on the lotus as they await admission to the U.S. With them are the king's chamberlain, a villain as cold as a Danube carp, and a sadistic international financier, who keeps thin, boned whips in his bureau drawer...
William Flanagan had long been a little curious about the locked drawer in his office safe. As deputy mayor of Jersey City, he sat in a seat once warmed by one of Boss Frank Hague's most trusted henchmen. Last week, rummaging through a filing cabinet, he found a key that unlocked the drawer. Inside he found the richest souvenir yet of Boss Hague's corrupt and efficient regime: six bound volumes labeled either "For" or "Against" and containing, on hundreds of pages of legal foolscap, the names of every home owner in Jersey City...
Last week, 40 years later, Chemist-Metallurgist Langmuir announced his retirement as associate director of G.E.'s famed lab. Among his achievements he could count a 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (the first won by a U.S. industrial chemist), awards and honors from many top-drawer scientific organizations, an impressive list of discoveries, and international renown...