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...ambush was as sudden as it was effective. Driver Jim Buntin had just dropped his third fare of the morning at Knightsbridge. when he received radio orders to go to Belgrave Square. As he swung his trim, tiny black-and-white Fiat Multipla into the square with its swank, yellow-white Regency houses, the enemy struck. "Baker four, I'm in trouble!" Buntin shouted over his intercom as a flotilla of tall, black, box-shaped London taxis bore down on him, their "For Hire" flags raised high, their exhaust pipes billowing clouds of diesel smoke, their cabbies shaking irate...
...Missions. The kidnapers disposed of all clues by burning the kidnap car and dropping their typewriter into the Seine. Pierre and Raymond decided that life was, at last, loverly. Pierre got a Studebaker and a small Fiat; Raymond bought a Peugeot, a Chevrolet Impala and a Thunderbird. Their girl friends, Ingelise and Rolande, blossomed out in new clothes...
...fainted, was revived with smelling salts, and then confessed. Pierre Larcher soon confessed too. Frogmen dove into the Seine and recovered the Hermes typewriter where Raymond said he had thrown it; the last $11,500 of the ransom money was found locked in the trunk of Larcher's Fiat...
France, on his way to Switzerland. Then, in a Fiat borrowed in Vienna, he may have driven to Venice, where he reportedly registered at Hotelâ Bauer Grunwald as Renato Stafani. In Milan, he is supposed to have registered at the Grand Hotel Duomo using his wife's maiden name of Silva. He was rumored to have visited a Florence art gallery, from there reported ly drove on to Rome and an unidentified friend's villa at Ostia, 20 miles from Rome, where a Brazilian embassy spokes man helpfully announced: "I can't even tell...
...striped nouveaux riches. On a raised runway in the middle of the barn, a professional auctioneer commanded all attention. At the rate of 72 a day-one every seven minutes during three sessions daily-the auctioneer sold new 1961 autos from Europe and Detroit. In the frantic bidding, a Fiat went for $7,000, a Ford station wagon for $15,000, a Buick for $23,000, a Cadillac for an incredible $50,000. When the ten-day auction ended, 617 cars had been sold, about $10 million had changed hands, and the government of Arturo Frondizi had cleaned...