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...nonsensical events: a minister (Robert Preston), disguised as a jewel thief and accompanied by a hotel chambermaid (Eileen Heckart). coaxes an invalided gentlewoman (Glynis Johns) into letting him sell her pearls and kidnap her for ransom. The trio lives it up globally on the loot before coming to rest in a desert outpost of empire where a bean-brained colonel (Cyril Ritchard) and a versatile private (David Wayne) in Bedouin regalia, a la T. E. Lawrence, dizzily keep the pax Britannica...
...Marx and Lenin were supposed to put everybody in the right frame of mind. Said Castro himself, in a final pep talk: Cuba's athletes were going to Jamaica "not as athletes, but soldiers fighting the cause of socialism. There will be people who will try to kidnap you." As protection, he sent 20 secret-service men to guard his warriors; even the bat boy on Cuba's baseball team...
...hostage, Giovanni Giovannini, 41, of Turin's La Stampa, was being driven at furious speed through the night-past police who respectfully saluted the kidnap car-and wound up in a circle of executioners. "The commandant," he later reported, "was a distinguished man in his 60s, and extremely polite. 'Signore,' he said to me, bowing, 'I have the honor of informing you, in the name of our supreme commander, General Raoul Salan, that you have been sentenced to death.' Turning to the others, he said, 'Shall we get it over with...
...plot to kidnap Bradley began three years ago, when Texas heard on the academic grapevine that middle-aged Chemist Bradley wanted the help of a bright young scientist to complement his own work. Texas began to look. It soon learned that Bradley admired a young specialist in crystallography. Dr. Hugo Steinfink, then working for an oil company in Houston.Steinfink was lured to the Texas campus in 1960 with the promise of unlimited freedom and such research tools as a $30,000 refracterometer. The presence of Steinfink hooked Bradley, and the deal was clinched with a new, $4,000,000, eight...
...Kidnap, Waller...