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Sheriff James C. Holzman, Wertheimer's new boss, said the rookie's first assignment will be to suggest revisions in the department manual. "We're not asking him to tell us the proper procedure for stopping a holdup man, for instance, but the concepts that underly the procedures." Holzman stated...
...brought in his gusher, Daisy Bradford No. 3. Legend has it that soon afterward he lost oil leases worth $100 million in a three-day card game. "Anything you hear about the boom towns won't be an exaggeration," says H. L. Hunt, the multimillionaire, who remembers that holdup men were so common that he and his partners would always walk single file and 16 feet apart when they went to town. The reason, he explains, was that "the bandits wouldn't stick us up if they couldn't cover us all with the same...
...group that included U.S. Senators Mark Hatfield, Hugh Scott and Howard Baker and Nixon's Communications Chief Herb Klein walked out into a volley of gunfire on the street. The victim was a 29-year-old Treasury agent-in-training who was shot when he refused a holdup man's demand for money. He was treated by another member of the group, Kentucky Congressman Tim Lee Carter, who happens to be a doctor as well as a politician...
...Holdup Bait. Young Eisenhower, who was graduated from West Point the day of the Normandy invasion and who spent his graduation leave in Father's headquarters, has not only pored over the documents but revisited the battlefields. He has interviewed soldiers from both sides and all echelons, from squad leaders up to Field Marshal Montgomery. For the human or Willie-and-Joe side of war, though, the reader will still have to go to the likes of Cornelius Ryan (The Last Battle). Eisenhower earned a master's degree in English from Columbia, while his father was university president...
...alcoholic steelworker, appropriately named Tank (Julian Mayfield), is rejected by his white employers and his black power-hungry companions. When one of the rebels murders a man during a holdup, Tank, blinded by resentment and fumes of booze, turns him in for $1,000 in reward money. Assailed by guilt, he abruptly endows a sidewalk preacher and a bunch of barflies with $20 bills. Militants spot the trail of green and run Tank to earth. Almost gratefully he accepts their revenge: a bullet in the stomach...