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DIED. Thomas F. ("Sandy") Richardson, 73, a member of the famed Brink's gang that made off with $2.8 million in Boston 30 years ago, including enough in currency ($1.2 million) to make it the largest cash holdup in U.S. history at the time; of cancer; in South Weymouth, Mass. Richardson, a sometime longshoreman, was one of eleven men charged with the crime in 1956, only five days before the state statute of limitations would have...
...siege, the island's capture is intended to drive home the message to all Americans that the nation is woefully unprepared to resist enemy attack. The dotty general's Götterdammerung is orchestrated by Peter Stiehl, an engaging mercenary from South Africa. Manhattan outlasts the holdup, but, after all, it is a city of survivors. Stiehl, with a $1 million fee from the general and the man's beautiful daughter in tow, also survives. . . perhaps. In any event, it's time for him to switch to martinis...
...bank, Director-Writer Brest (Hot Tomorrows) apparently meant to make a poignant statement about the loneliness and financial indignities that can grip old people. The subject is worthwhile, but Brest never comes close to giving it either tragic or comic life. Except for the funny holdup and a brief subsequent Vegas gambling spree, Going in Style has only dull, homely sequences that alternately patronize and sentimentalize the aged. The mordant humor of Carl Reiner's Where's Poppa? and the fiery compassion of Paul Mazursky's Harry and Tonto are nowhere to be found...
...epidemic of bank holdups? Simple enough: withdrawals are easy. For one thing there are more and more targets. As the number of banks and branches in the U.S. rose from 52,000 in 1968 to 90,000 today, the number of robberies soared from 2,040 in 1970 to 4,739 in 1978. Banks are often located close to highways and shopping centers, a convenience for robbers as well as customers. Tellers are trained to hand over the money in a holdup to avoid shootings, and even the guards are often instructed not to resist. As a result, notes...
...only did he brandish a chrome-plated pistol, but he was a natty dresser who always wore a fedora and treated his victims with elaborate courtesy. He once even apologetically told a clerk, "I wouldn't do this if I didn't have to." After seven holdup witnesses picked the same man out of a police lineup last February, the authorities indicted an unlikely suspect: the Rev. Bernard T. Pagano, 53, then assistant pastor at St. Mary's Refuge of Sinners Church in Cambridge...