Word: holdup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though thousands of pieds-noirs are unemployed, most scorn available jobs as laborers or on the docks as "Arab work." Some have turned to crime, are readily identifiable as holdup men because of their throaty accents. So alarmingly has Marseille's crime rate risen, in fact, that the central government in Paris has been forced to dispatch 800 riot troopers to the city to beef up the local police force...
...Crump, 32, read from the Bible and Socrates, watched the lights of his Cook County cell flicker as officials tested the electric chair behind a green steel door just 20 steps away. He was waiting, as he had been through nine years and 14 reprieves, to die for the holdup-slaying of a Chicago industrial guard...
Within a day, all the commuters were back in line on all the trains, fingering their beetle-eaten tickets, hoping that the next holdup would be less excruciating. It was, in fact. Few days later the New Haven's 6:05 stopped about a mile and a-half short of the Stamford (Conn.) station, whereupon dozens of passengers resolutely got out and began marching in solid phalanx for town. Along the way, they spotted another stalled train starting up. They climbed aboard only to find that the train was not scheduled to stop at Stamford. But one heroic commuter...
Their costume-jeans, plaid shirt, jacket-is their trademark. Those who can afford it ride sputtering convoys of motor scooters, complete with snug-sweatered girl friends perched behind. Besides the slashers and the holdup artists, there are the bobby-soxers and song faddists, who burst into Los Cerrillos airport last month to greet Canadian Rock-'n'-Roller Paul Anka, causing $25,000 worth of damage before airport crews cooled them off with a riot hose. But Anka, who affects boyish dignity and grey flannel suits, looks like a Boston banker compared to the Chileans' own pride...
Well-tamed New Yorkers have long since learned that to stray beyond the floodlights in the city parks at night is to invite a holdup, a mugging or worse. But Columbia University Professor Karl H. Menges, 52, who has seen some wild places in his time, thought he was in a civilized country as he took his evening walk one night last week past Morningside Park, which borders the Columbia campus. Half a dozen teen-agers stopped him, asked for a match, then as he hesitated beat him over the head with a heavy board and knocked him bleeding...