Word: holdup
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Despite the space-age image that Houston seeks to convey, a group of businessmen has hired shotgun squads to protect their retail establishments from the holdup men-called hijackers in Texas-who have been terrorizing the town. The need was obvious. There was an average of 190 armed robberies a month last year. During the first four months of 1967, the figure leaped to 290. The police department, starved for funds by a penurious local government, has been of little help. Other cities of 1,000,000 or more have an average police-citizenry ratio of about...
...chair, he cried: "I am Jesus Christ!" Moments later, a pellet of potassium cyanide was dropped into a solution of dilute sulfuric acid, and blowers began sucking the lethal gas upward. Within twelve minutes, Aaron Mitchell, 37, who was convicted of slaying a Sacramento policeman during a 1963 tavern holdup, was dead. He was the first man to be executed in California in four years and the first in the U.S. this year...
...scene after scene, the film accurately portrays the major sequences of the crime: the initial holdup at London airport to bankroll the big caper; the carefully planned mail call in which not a pound note was overlooked, and the only injury was suffered by a locomotive engineer who proved unexpectedly belligerent; the foolish, post-heist swaggering of the thieves; the burial of the loot in such out-of-the-way places as a church graveyard; Scotland Yard's massive descent upon the scent. At film's end, a voice ominously booms the warning that some of the robbers...
...Supreme Court's new confession rules barred the key evidence against him. To be sure, McChan was also accused of leading a prison riot last July. But a Baltimore jury acquitted him last month, forcing frustrated Judge Joseph L. Carter, as he put it, to "foist a professional holdup man on the public...
PISTOLS 'N' PETTICOATS (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). Hank Hawks (Ann Sheridan) and Grandma (Ruth McDevitt) put a stop to a stagecoach holdup, not realizing that it was carefully planned by Fellow Passenger Sir Richard (Patrick Horgan). He learns he will have to corral the Hawks family if he is going to succeed in the crime business...