Word: fools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mutual Education. On file in Saint-Cloud are 930,000 identity cards, 60,000 sets of fingerprints and 5,000 photos of "specialized criminals" classified according to year of birth, height and facial measurements under a telltale system that sometimes even plastic surgery cannot fool. Another ingenious file contains perforated cards that, superimposed, tell at a glance how many persons from different categories (men, women, Dominicans, Dahomeyans) have committed similar major crimes-especially useful when clues are nil. It works so well that Interpol does not even feel any need for computers. According to one official: "Once we get someone...
...Flying Fool," they called him. Where his rivals prepared elaborate rations, Lindbergh bought five sandwiches from a restaurant, remarking: "If I get to Paris, I won't need any more, and if I don't get to Paris, I won't need any more either." When he was dragged from the plane at Le Bourget 33 hours and 30 minutes later, legend insists that he said: "Well, here we are." He was mobbed by the public and feted by the great (he had to borrow a suit to meet the President of France). President Calvin Coolidge sent...
From the start, the legend was slightly askew. Lindbergh was no Flying Fool. Even at 25, he was probably the best knockabout flyer in the U.S. He was chief pilot (of three) for a tiny airline with a newly awarded contract to fly airmail between St. Louis and Chicago. Four times, lost in fog, he had been forced to ditch his plane and jump for his life. Lindbergh had left the University of Wisconsin midway through his sophomore year to take a course in flying, bought his first plane (for $500) a year later, and qualified as a pilot...
...Commies cannot fool all the people all the time. The Indonesians kicked them out, then the Ghanaians, now the Greeks. Splendid...
...best policy, then, would seem to be to redirect the Rangers, not to beat them or fool them. The Chicago police, following this line of thought, went so far as to arrange a peace treaty between the Rangers and their main rivals, the Disciples, last summer...