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...World Bank is as odd as a platypus in a poultry yard. In its slabsided headquarters in Washington, D.C., it does not even have a vault. Once, when money was left lying around-$30,000 in travel funds-it was promptly stolen by a thief who made a clean getaway. The World Bank was born at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference,*almost as an afterthought to its sister institution, the International Monetary Fund, set up to deal with the temporary "disequilibrium" in world currency-exchange rates. But the job of equalizing the world's moneys proved too much...
...Getaway Day. In Houston, Mrs. Sammie Lee Hicks described her husband for the missing persons bureau: "He has a flat forehead and a large nose and mouth. All in all, he looks like a horse...
After 20 minutes in the building, the robbers made their getaway, drove to the Roxbury home of Adolph ("Jazz") Maffie, 44, quickly discovered that they had too much money to count in one night. Joseph McGinnis, 52, the eleventh member of the gang, took the pea jackets, caps, false faces and about $100,000 in new and traceable currency away to burn, and the others dispersed (McGinnis, the gang treasurer, had spent the evening in a restaurant, talking to a detective and establishing a foolproof alibi). Two months after the crime, police found the remains of the truck, carefully minced...
...wash, she used to boast to neighbors about what a good provider Bobby was. Bobby hardly ever had to work more than a couple of nights a month. For her part, Maggie was as dutiful a wife as a man could ask for: she usually drove the getaway car for Bobby and his gang. But Bobby was often violently jealous of his wife, and the O'Connors' home life was less than tranquil. Once, after he saw Maggie talking to a man in a bar, Bobby rushed home, grabbed a pair of scissors, and cut all Maggie...
...pair of thieves cleaned the cash register at the Crimson Garage on Boylston Street late last night, taking $150 in cash. One of the two "went inside to get warm" while the attendant was filling the gas tank of the getaway car and rifled the register...