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...months. The FBI has already linked Patty or her companions to two jobs. On Feb. 25, the Guild Savings & Loan Association in Sacramento was robbed of $3,700. Authorities say that the apparent leader of the holdup was a man described as resembling Bill Harris. The driver of the getaway car was a young woman. Going through the material found in the Harrises' apartment, the FBI turned up a scrap of paper that connected the group to the robbery of the Crocker National Bank branch in the Sacramento suburb of Carmichael on April 21. The ski-masked bandits-three...
...constitute a commercial enterprise and require a license. Since this all takes place while the bank is being robbed, it is subsequently suggested to Clouseau by his chief inspector that the beggar may well have been a lookout. Dumbfounded, Clouseau does not mention that while the robbers made their getaway, he picked up a stray bit of currency that the brigands had dropped from the bundle and even stopped traffic for the getaway...
...Chicago underworld. His rise in the crime organization built by Al Capone began in his teens on Chicago's West Side, where he was born in 1908, the son of an immigrant grocer. A grade-school dropout, he joined the Chicago Mob as a wheelman, or getaway driver, then graduated to triggerman. Convicted of moonshining in 1939, he managed to turn his four-year sentence to his advantage by cultivating the friendship of Edward Jones, the policy king of Chicago's South Side, who was serving time for income tax evasion. From Jones, Giancana learned that the city...
...another type of appetite is their third companion, the wife of the Swiss ambassador (Marlene Jobert). She gives the men asylum and a ride past the German checkpoint, where things do not go well. The Germans are suspicious, and the wife tears off into the desert like an ace getaway driver. The bullets fly, and it is all great fun. Jobert also takes a shine to her two anxious soldiers of fortune, although which one she truly loves becomes a source of good-humored competition...
...Getaway Plans. Defying the odds, a few American companies continue to operate in Saigon. Among them: San Francisco-based Foremost-McKesson, which runs the capital's only dairy. Foremost will keep the plant running, said President William Morison, "as long as whatever government they have there allows us to." Chase's branch manager returned to Saigon, at least temporarily, after embassy officials promised that he and other bank employees would have equal priority with government personnel if and when it came time to run. Pan American last week managed to operate two scheduled flights into Saigon, even though...