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...more savage scene was played out on 14th Street. A gang pulled one white from his car and beat him unconscious...
...extensive was the take that Spanish police assumed that the operation had been carried out by a sizable and experienced gang. The burglars were so familiar with the bank, investigators theorized, that they must have rented a box at some point in order to case the place. One immediate suspect: Frenchman Albert Spaggiari, 50, who with seven accomplices in 1976 hit a Societe Generate branch in Nice for $ 10 million in cash and other valuables. Spaggiari was nabbed by police for that heist, but escaped one year later by jumping out the window of a magistrate's office where...
DIED. Jack ("the Dandy") Parisi, 83, natty, baggy-eyed triggerman for the infamous Murder, Inc. gang of the '30s who beat every rap brought against him save one: he served six years for narcotics trafficking; in Hazleton, Pa. Said one prosecutor of the tightlipped, Italian-born hitman: "If you hung him up by the thumbs for eight weeks, he might tell you his first name...
...until at the end of the show one can scarcely hear the announcer and literally no one is paying the band the slightest attention. This is, I believe, an accurate description of the Yale game halftime this year. The only relief was provided by the antics of the MIT gang...
...gang of at least three thieves that hit the Bronx-based Sentry Armored Car Courier Co. went about their business with remarkable efficiency. Near midnight two of the bandits, dressed in ski masks and gloves, climbed onto the roof of the two-story Sentry building. Using metal-cutting tools, they sawed a 2-ft. hole in the roof and lowered themselves down a rope. Armed with a double-barrel shotgun, they gagged and handcuffed the only guard on duty. A crowbar was used to break the locks off the metal door to the basement "money room." There, some $30 million...