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...five days, while rumors of the big haul spread through the Mediterranean fleet, the Midway's officers publicly dismissed them as poorest scuttlebutt, and privately combed the ship's company for the robbers. Finally Rear Admiral A. K. Doyle, red-faced, made public the bluejackets' story. The mighty 45,000-ton Midway, protected by 137 planes, 180 guns and thousands of tons of steel armor-plate, had been taken from the inside. Nobody knew who the three robbers were or where the $3,000 had gone...
...problem with a new, semisecret weapon: an ingenious "third lung," designed at Zurich and perfected by Swiss watchmakers. Contrary to widespread opinion, there is nothing unsporting about using oxygen, though some British mountaineers might consider it "going soft." Heretofore, it has simply been considered impractical or impossible to haul the added burden. The new lightweight (22 Ibs.) Swiss lung, complete with plastic mouthpiece, is worked by the climber's own breath, which releases the precious oxygen...
Commenting on Tuesday's $600,000 haul from an unguarded armored car in Danvers, Glueck said that it showed the same "clever, persistent checking on police habit and routine" that has been displayed in other recent robberies...
...course, they haul their laundry bags out of their closets and pick out the least grubby shirt, a pair of argyles that were too big for the man for whom they were intended, a skirt salvaged from a bundle for Britain, and the charred remains of little brother's tennis and furnace-stoking shoes...
That morning, two months ago, Judge Bernstein did listen-to stories of whippings, blackjackings and assorted cruelties that were hard to believe. But he decided to do some investigating. By last week, he had learned enough to haul Superintendent George R. Ridgway and five of his employees into court in one of the most sordid scandals Arizona has known in years...