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Play guns are a $200 million-a-year market for U.S. toymakers, with about 75% ( of sales devoted to fake military weapons, including look-alike Uzi machine guns and M-16s. Those toys can turn deadly for their wielders, whether they are used by holdup artists who may draw defensive fire from police or robbery victims, or by innocent youngsters whose intent is mistaken by police...
...Philadelphia Inquirer, in an unusual coup, won two in the same category, investigative reporting. One went to John Woestendiek, whose day-to-day coverage of the prison beat led him to probe the case of Terence McCracken Jr., a teenager convicted of murdering an elderly man during a holdup. Woestendiek's yearlong investigation, which included interviews with several witnesses who placed McCracken elsewhere at the time of the crime and a re-examination of forensic evidence that had helped convict him, resulted in the case's being reopened. McCracken is now out on bail, awaiting a new trial...
...this from the cab of an 18-wheel truck stuck in the traffic jam: "What's the holdup...
...sprung pretty fast, it could holdup the summit," said Kondracke...
Henry Hill's specialties included arson, auto theft, bookmaking, bribery, drug dealing, horse-race fixing, credit-card fraud, extortion and freight hijacking. He organized the much publicized 1978-79 Boston College basketball point-shaving scheme and helped plan the $6 million Lufthansa holdup at New York City's Kennedy International Airport...