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...quit early. This has given rise to dour little jokes. The long-suffering wife of a drinking husband supposedly says: "That's the first time Paddy has been home before closing time in years." Another story?a true one?tells of fleeing bombers who had to return their stolen getaway car because they had unwittingly taken it from another I.R.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND / In the Shadow of the Gunmen | 1/10/1972 | See Source »

...these people. We try to think how to prevent a crime, but we can't think like them." The best deterrents to car thieves are a locking steering column and an extra ignition switch hidden somewhere under the dash. For a thief whose best cover is a quick getaway, it usually isn't worth the wait to find the extra switch...

Author: By William S. Beckett, | Title: The Latest Trend at Harvard: Crime | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

...feeling low." For Bette Davis it was a bushel or two of hippie-esque old clothes for her role as a raffish grandmother whose hobby is robbing banks. The film, currently in production, is called Bunny O'Hare, in which Miss Davis rides a getaway motorbike with Ernest Borgnine. Catherine Deneuve's pretty light looked for a while as though it might go out permanently under bushels of pachyderm. Tiny, flame-haired and frail in black chiffon, she stretched out on the Cirque d'Hiver tanbark and lay there, while a large male elephant stepped carefully over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 10, 1971 | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

...West legally responsible for Smith's death? Hardly. In the eyes of the law, the proper defendants in the killing were the victim's buddies−not only the wounded Daniels, but also Alvin Taylor, who, according to police, was sitting outside in the getaway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Vicarious Murder | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

...judge's death, and the prosecution is likely to stick with that relatively straightforward charge alone. But under the logic leading to the Taylor decision, it is at least conceivable that Angela Davis could also be charged with the murder of the three kidnapers, who drove their getaway truck toward a roadblock, provoking their own deaths in a hail of police bullets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Vicarious Murder | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

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