Word: gunpoint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crime Wave. In Kansas City, Mo., Glenn Bernard Mitchell, 32, was sentenced to 10-to-21 years in prison for walking into the Bon-Ton Beauty Salon, receiving a cold-wave permanent, then stealing $38 at gunpoint and fleeing without paying for the hairdo...
...morning last week three men accosted a young New York bank clerk as he was leaving his home in New York City's borough of Queens. They ushered him into his Ford at gunpoint and drove with him the 14 blocks to his office, a branch of the Bank of the Manhattan Co. (which had just merged with Chase National to become the nation's second largest bank). They waited on the sidewalk outside. When the manager arrived he was stopped, too. "This isn't funny," he snapped. One of the bandits, flashing a submachine gun, replied...
...midnight they burst out, captured two guards. At 1 a.m. they forced the guards, at gunpoint, to give the "all's well" signal. Meanwhile, they improvised a ladder from scraps of wood, belts, bits of rope and a necktie. But it was too short to breast the prison wall, too flimsy to support their weight. By 4 a.m. three other guards had been captured. At 5 a.m. a general alarm was sounded...
...Parting Guests. In Wichita, Kans., after being robbed by two bandits ol $1,500 and forced to carry a stolen bag of' groceries to their car, Grocer Dale Steen was forced at gunpoint to borrow a customer's car, push the getaway car a quarter of a mile to get it started...
...explaining why he ran for President of Panama in 1952. As the country's strongman police chief he had watched five men try to govern Panama during the span of one normal presidential term, had reluctantly turned a couple of the failures out of office at gunpoint. President Remón brought order out of disorder, and Panama found the sensation so pleasant that it marked him down as almost indispensable. But last week Remón lay dead, and something like a relapse into anarchy plainly threatened...