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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City special policeman. He stuck a pistol into his victim's face while another man, also armed and wearing a Halloween mask, appeared on the other side of the Ford. The thieves knew what they wanted. Inside the old station wagon, guarded by six unarmed messengers, was a load of jewelry and gold bullion valued at some $3,000,000. It was a routine transfer of valuables between wholesalers and repair firms and jewelry merchants; by using dowdy and inconspicuous delivery methods-old car, unarmed guards in mufti-jewelers feel they have the safest insurance against holdups...
...before deciding on the Rev. J. T. Ford of Atlanta's Wieuca Road Baptist Church. Last week, after weighing the committee's offer, delivering two trial sermons and meeting about 600 members of the congregation, Ford took the job. "I came to work Monday feeling quite a load lifted from my shoulders," said Charles P. Little, the exhausted chairman of the committee...
...wind-whipped Waddenzee Islands of The Netherlands last week, battered landing craft disgorged load after load of equipment and intense men from as far away as Texas, Kuwait and Brunei. Growling Land-Rovers raced up and down sandy stretches recently surrendered by vacationing Dutchmen; helicopters whirred overhead. The invaders represented some of the 24 oil companies that are gunning for a share of the world's second largest natural gas deposit (after Texas). The Dutch government conservatively estimates that 1,100 billion cubic meters of gas bubbles under the Waddenzee Islands and the northern provinces. Others reckon that...
...toss its heavier load 1,000 extra miles, the A-3 packs more thrust and less deadweight. First-stage fuel, made by Aerojet General Corp., is denser, so that more can be carried in the same space. It is also more powerful, producing a hotter flame (6,300 to 6,600° F.) and more thrust. The casing that restrains its pressure (800 to 900 lbs. per sq. in.) has been lightened by making it out of filament-wound glass fiber instead of metal...
...mysterious load of about 20 books "in a foreign language" has been turned in to the Cambridge Police. "Not tied or in any other way connected," the books were found together on Massachusetts Avenue near Harvard Square, presumably...