Word: heist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story gets clicking. Alain is a nice young ex-con trying to straighten out with the help of Wife Ann-Margret but with no help at all from his gangster brother. First thing anybody knows, there is poor Alain wrapped up in a plot to heist a million dollars' worth of platinum wire. Double and triple crosses pop in and out as if run through a revolving door, and thriller fans will find a plenitude of such ritual sounds as the squeal of tires, the chunk of a silenced gun and the rat-a-tat of sound-track percussion...
...when the FBI made its first arrests in the Brink's heist in Boston, Edgar Hoover's announcement, carried by both national wire services prematurely declared that "intensive investigation by the FBI for the past six years has resulted in the solution of the million dollar Brink's robbery. Of the eleven members of the gang responsible for the robbery, the FBI this morning arrested six." When word leaked to the Chicago Daily News that two of the six cops arrested for burglary in 1960 were ready to talk in exchange for lighter sentences, the paper refused...
...chairman of Chicago's Brink's Inc., biggest U.S. money mover ($300 billion a year), who directed repayment of the $1,200,000 in cash lost to customers in the 1950 Boston robbery, then ordered the intensive security overhaul that has precluded any sequel to that heist and, true to the new Brinkmanship, kept three pistols hidden in his office to the day of his retirement; following a heart attack; in Chicago...
Help! Some of the workers had witnessed the heist, and had stood by passively. Others, who had not seen the stickup, heard the "cop" call to them: "Come here and get this thing going for me." With an instinctive contempt for the law, they replied with derisive hoots. At last, the defeated wheel man jumped from the car and took to his heels. A few blocks off, the other crooks had abandoned the panel truck and presumably had gone elsewhere to rendezvous with the station wagon. But the imprisoned guards, meanwhile, were raising a clamor, and a passer-by called...
...Augie sits in the meat cooler. Augie is so suety that on a warm day the cooler is the only place he can keep his body heat down. In comes one of his hoods to report a botched heist. Augie pulls a wicked knife, slams the hood against a meathook, and threatens to make him look like a slab of Grade A Prime. A woman in pink slacks, straw hat and cowboy boots interrupts. "Peter, darling," she husks, "hold the knife this way. And make sure we see that sweet meathook...