Word: getaways
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...Australia's 20-year-old Herb Elliott got spiked in the getaway rush, encountered stiff head winds in the homestretch, still managed to win the British Empire Games mile at Cardiff, Wales in 3:59-his seventh under-four-minute mile...
...with a whine and a roar. Opening padlocked metal containers and black satchels, the combat crews checked the emergency war plans they had learned by heart in daily briefings in the U.S. and in Morocco, photographic and radar pictures of their preassigned targets in Russia, routes of approach and getaway, estimates of enemy defenses and radar capabilities, the latest of the global Strategic Air Command's four-hourly reports on the weather over the Soviet Union (cloudy to overcast more than half the time, necessitating radar bombing). Sidi Slimane's alert force met its deadline...
Timesaver. In Milan, Italy, James Lorenzi, 68. swiped a clock from a jewelry store, had almost made his getaway when the alarm went...
Slipping Business. In Glasgow, burglars broke into a grocery of the R. & J. Templeton chain, raided it for 8 Ibs. of butter, greased the floor with it, slid the safe to the door, where their getaway truck was waiting...
...between the cozy orphanage and a Dachau-like state prison near by. Sal suddenly finds himself up to his downy cheeks in an escape engineered by two desperate jailbirds, whom he met and befriended while they were sweating over some local ditchdigging. Impressed into helping them make a swampy getaway, Sal gradually gets into his hardening skull the idea that no bad man is all bad. The corollary: some of society's watchdogs (such as sadistic Prison Warden J. Carrol Naish) and false heroes (the millionaire trucker) can be absolutely no good...