Word: holdup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week after his death). "Ever since I was born, I've been fighting for my life," Liston used to say. Much of it was out of the ring. Son of an Arkansas cotton farmer, Liston in his late teens was serving a five-year sentence for a restaurant holdup when a prison chaplain tried to channel his ferocious aggressions into boxing. Under the guidance of the mob, he won all but one of his first 34 matches and in 1962 took the heavyweight title from Floyd Patterson. "The Big Bear" lost to brash young Cassius Clay in 1964 when...
...through an intercom and pneumatic tubes. One unit with tube attachments costs from $11,000 to $23,000. Pittsburgh's Mellon Bank is installing an expensive computer-controlled alarm network that connects all its branches with the central office and transmits different signals for a burglary or a holdup. Some bankers who want to stay open at night but are worried about robberies after dark get around the threat by installing automatic tellers on the walls of the vestibule-at a cost of $17,000 to $23,000 each. The customer inserts a special credit card, punches a secret...
Despite their success, however, the holdup men were essentially amateurs. In all their jobs, they managed to steal a total of only $275,000. And when the three men were caught last week, they were so eager to boast about their exploits that they implicated the other seven gang members, four of whom had already bungled their way into jail on other charges...
...curious combination of Gallic courtesy, reckless abandon and careful planning, the impromptu bandits -generally operating in two-man teams -thereupon hit seven Marseille banks in 57 days. They never wore masks or gloves. They never fired a gun or struck anyone. When an elderly lady fainted during a holdup, one gang member, Antoine Nitti, gave her a glass of water and embraced her before fleeing...
...Pistols. "My criterion for success," he recalls, "was money-money made you a big man." As a result, he and a buddy enlisted a young woman employee of the New York Telephone Co. as their accomplice and pulled off a $23,000 payroll holdup at one of the company's Bronx offices. There was no violence; they used toy pistols for the job. Six weeks later, Kemp was arrested for the first time; the girl, questioned about her sudden big-spending habits, had talked...