Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York, in Washington, in San Juan, Government agents began a high-pressure investigation of the weird assassination plot. Government agents roused by teletype combed Manhattan's Spanish Harlem; they picked up a covey of Puerto Rican Nationalists, arrested the wives of the two gunmen. Both women were dry-eyed and defiant. Cried Rosa Collazo to her three daughters: "Hold up your heads. Don't be ashamed...
...work in the local factory and falls in love with the manufacturer's daughter (Valli), who has been confined to a wheelchair by a skiing accident. The stickup comes off on schedule, but when Cotten's Co-Thief Paul Stewart arrives in Ashton, the New York gunmen are at his heels...
Four hours later and two miles away, Lawyer Marvin Bas was caught and shot down by two gunmen in the shadow of the Chicago El. Chicago's Keystone cops skittered busily around town trying to run down a lead to the killers. But wherever they looked for big shots in The Outfit who might be able to answer a few polite questions, the cops found nobody home-the boys were all on abrupt vacations. Running away to hide was something that rarely happened in Big Al Capone's day. But Al, as everyone knew, was not worried...
...rode merry-go-rounds and Ferris wheels. Giggling girls had their pictures taken with genial Soviet G.I.s. The rally's propa- ganda motif was "Friendship." Wherever two groups of blue-shirted youngsters met, they shouted "Freundschaft!" at each other. Truckloads of grinning Communist cops-looking as incongruous as gunmen at a Sunday picnic-careened through the streets, yelling "Freundschaft!" at the moppets, who enthusiastically returned the salute...
...their most daring show-The House of Bernardo, Alba, by Spain's late great Federico Garcia Lorca. The Andalusian poet, a symbol of intellectual opposition to Francisco Franco's regime, had written the play a few months before his murder in 1936 by Falangist gunmen...