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...clockwork heist that lasted just two minutes. In that brief time, the four stickup men netted what was probably the biggest holdup haul in French history: $3,540,000. But the question that bedeviled Frenchmen last week was what in the world the culprits thought they could do with their loot. The bandits had made off with newly minted, neatly packaged, bronze-colored ten-franc coins-1,770,000 of them, to be exact-that weighed 17.7 tons and would require nearly 30 cu. yds. of space merely to store. If the four bandits each spend...
...Mafia, for once, was not involved. The masterminds who pulled off Italy's ripest heist of the year are just greedy cheese merchants who smelled a good thing. When the Italian government last spring auctioned off 19,000 tons of Parmesan cheese that it had bought to support falling prices, a few wholesalers snapped up practically the whole lot-in effect, cornering the market. Ever since, the speculators have released their hoard of the golden, crumbly protein-rich cheese only when supplies were scarce...
...door had been welded shut-from the inside. Behind it, a group of meticulous weekend robbers had pulled off what French headlines promptly dubbed le fric-frac du siècle (the heist of the century). In daring and imagination, it was in a class with some of the best heist movies ever made. The hoods-police estimate that ten people were involved-had used five tons of excavation and safecracking equipment to get at an estimated $10 million in currency and valuables stored in nine safes and 317 of the bank's 4,000 safe deposit boxes. Awed...
First there was the Great Train Robbery. Now, Britain seems to have experienced a Great Plane Robbery. Last week Scotland Yard detectives were scurrying after leads in a daring heist of foreign currencies worth some $3.7 million-a robbery second in size, in Britain, only to the famed $7 million Royal Mail coach grab of 1963. The latest theft was carried out in broad daylight at Heathrow Airport, and it was acutely embarrassing to a U.S.-owned security and air-freight firm, Purolator Services Ltd., which frequently ships large quantities of currency...
...Hearst has been snatched again. In Network, a thriller-with-a-message by Director Sidney Lumet, a young heiress named Mary Ann Gifford is kidnaped by an outfit called the Ecumenical Liberation Army, joins them in a bank robbery, then helps them try to sell a film of the heist to a big TV network, to be shown on its Mao Tse-tung Hour. During the negotiations, which lead to the crackup of a venerable anchorman, played by Peter Finch, Mary Ann cries out, "It's not the money that's important, it's the principle...