Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tall and blond, he did not look much like Cary Grant but as a thief, his record was more impressive; police claimed Sacha was the leader of a gang of jewel thieves that have lifted several million from the mansions and hotels of France, Belgium and Germany since 1953. Said an exuberant Riviera police chief, hoping some of the month's robberies could be traced to le beau Sacha: "We have trapped a very big bird, undoubtedly the most important in the last 30 years...
...first seven months of 1961, more than 1,400 policemen were attacked, some 350 required medical attention, and the casualty rate was running one-third more than last summer. In one case, while two patrolmen probed the East River for the body of a boy who had drowned, a gang of teen-agers stood on a pier and threw rocks at them. Later, when Patrolman Stanley Butch jumped off the pier in an effort to save a drowning man, the kids stole his hat, shoes, watch and $5, which he had left ashore...
Sloppily conducted by both sides, the Hauptmann trial raised more questions than it answered, and Waller can do little more than separate the obvious loose ends: Had there been a gang involved? How could Hauptmann, without inside help, have known that the Lindberghs would be at Hopewell on that particular night? Why had one of the family's servants killed herself...
...within a year. To cope with his problems, Diem had no cohesive civil service, could not even depend on a loyal army, since his French-trained military chief. General Nguyen Van Hinh, was personally hostile and forever plotting to take over the reins of government himself. A private gang, the notorious Binh Xuyen, actually operated the national police, having bought the "concession" from Puppet Emperor Bao Dai for $1,000,000. On top of all this, two powerful quasi-religious sects, the Cao Dai and the Hoa Hao, controlled large parts of the countryside, opposing Diem's regime and enforcing...
...action in Laos. Cottrell is willing to use rough, unorthodox methods to stop the Communists, works closely with Brigadier General Edward Lansdale, the Pentagon's guerrilla warfare expert who helped Magsaysay crush the Huks in the Philippines and advised Ngo Dinh Diem in his battle against the Binh Xuyen gang...