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...there is much more to come. Cement makers have boosted prices by 10? to 20? per bbl. in several areas, effective in November or January. On Sept. 1, Detroit's unionized barbers will increase men's hair cuts from $2.25 to $2.50. Incensed by that "annual holdup," the Detroit News only half-jokingly urged men to wear their hair long as "a badge of courage in the face of inflationary pressures...
Assault on a Queen, written with a waterproof pen by Rod Serling, describes how a daredevil gang headed by Frank Sinatra, Tony Franciosa and Virna Lisi salvages a sunken German U-boat and uses it to stage a high-seas holdup of the Queen Mary. Despite the acknowledged cooperation of Cunard lines and the U.S. Coast Guard, most of the action appears to take place in a studio tank. When they are not scraping off barnacles or scrapping about sex, the actors group themselves in front of sea-blue projections and admit quite openly that their plan is insane, although...
...Sylvester Johnson and Stanley Cassidy, now awaiting execution in New Jersey, were implicated by a confederate's coerced confession in the 1958 holdup murder of a toyshop operator in Camden. Johnson, then 21 and a schizoid, asked a magistrate for a lawyer, was refused, and confessed after twelve hours. Cassidy, then 25 and "regressed," received no warning and confessed during 20 hours' grilling. Because both convictions were final before Escobedo, they pose the retroactivity riddle. ¶ Ernesto Miranda, 23, an "emotionally ill" truck driver, received 25-and 30-year sentences in 1963 for robbing a woman and kidnaping...
...Sandy, with his better record, went in with Don on the parlay, J. William smoothly confides that "they figured the way to end all gossip about rivalry between them would be to go as an entry." The Dodgers know what he really means: a dual holdout means a bigger holdup...
...middle of the holdup an older man entered the store and was also told to get to the rear of the store where he joined the four students ordered there at the beginning of the robbery...