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...them, and had carried and tried to use guns in violation of company rules. In other cases, suicidal wishes have provoked murder-a phenomenon that the mother of Congressional Medal of Honor Winner Dwight Johnson may have recognized when she surmised that her son, shot while committing a holdup, had "tired of life and needed someone else to pull the trigger...
...organization, managed to raise a skimpy $200,000, and launched his campaign at a dead run. "Let's go!" says the candidate, jumping into his leased and unmarked Mercury. "Let's move!" Traveling with Friedman, reports TIME Correspondent Sam Iker, "is more like fleeing from a bank holdup than leaving a political gathering." By averaging ten hard-hitting neighborhood appearances a day for the past two months, Friedman has at least reached the point where his campaign is being taken seriously...
Chairman McClelland blamed the holdup in releasing the report on members who delayed in making their comments after its initial distribution in January 1970. But a Senate aide said yesterday, "that subcommittee has a track record of holding hearings then years later releasing a report...
...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...