Word: holdup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...setting for another sort of dubious achievement last week: the largest cash theft in American history. Until then the all-time record belonged to the perpetrators of the 1962 Plymouth, Mass., mail-truck robbery, who stole $1.55 million in cash, and of the 1950 Brink's holdup in Boston, where $1.2 million of the $2.78 million haul was in cash. The profitable target in Chicago was the fortress-like facility of Purolator Security, Inc., one of the nation's largest armored-car and guard-service companies...
...case, Wright released a man, accused of shooting and seriously wounding a policeman in a restaurant holdup, on five hundred dollars bail, only to have his bail decision overturned by a fellow Criminal Court judge. Wright questioned the right of the judge--theoretically his equal--to overrule him. But the PBA pressured then Mayor Lindsay into initiating an investigation of Wright's fitness to serve as a judge. Nothing came of the investigation...
...place mats are blown-up replicas of $1,000 bills. Checks are paid to a cashier appropriately ensconced behind a teller's window. A six-ton armored car drives through town as an advertisement, and to make a reservation one has only to dial the telephone letters A HOLDUP...
...known S.L.A. hit-and-run forays, the bank robbery was apparently meticulously planned and coolly and professionally executed. Police believe that the bank had been carefully cased beforehand, presumably by some of the women because they would be less likely to be recognized. On the crystalline morning of the holdup, the bandits drove into the Sunset district, a neighborhood of middie-class homes and small businesses, in a green Ford station wagon. They were followed by four other S.L.A. members in a red Hornet sports car. The bank opened at 9 a.m., and at 9:50, the five marched into...
...judgment of what is best for the nation and the people. There are no apologies to be made for this Congress. It has done, it is doing, and it will continue to do the people's business." Returning to the Senate seven months after being shot in a holdup, John Stennis of Mississippi defended Congress. He said that he had heard that Senators were "not living up to their responsibilities. I don't believe one word of that...