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...more than half a mile from the bank, a ham radio operator named Robert Rowlands twirled the dials of his receiver to 27.15 megacycles. He quickly realized that he had accidentally tuned in on an exchange between bank robbers. They were communicating via two-way radio sets with their lookout, who was posted on the roof of a high building near by. But when Rowlands telephoned the local police station, he got only a polite and skeptical response...
...sisters, their spouses and assorted hangers-on have gathered at a villa for a holiday with the sisters' father, an aging, eminent writer (Ralph Richardson). The whole crowd is psychologically on the lam, morally lying low, parceling out a diminishing stock of options while they keep a furtive lookout for some dreaded future that is already rounding the corner...
...lost territories. Thomason has even planted a Georgia flag 500 yds. north of the accepted boundary. If Thomason's claim were to stick, the entire southern half of Chattanooga would sink into Georgia, and Tennessee's Senator William Brock would be out of a job, since his Lookout Mountain residence would be inside Georgia...
...write with a special accent about the only city on earth where the likes ol Big Bill Thompson and Al Capone could coexist as civic leaders. In Chicago, there is indeed a certain interchangeability between politics and other lines of work. "The Hawk," Mike Royko writes, "was the outside lookout man at a bookie joint. Then his eyes got weak, and he had to wear thick glasses, so he entered politics...
Weiland, himself a former NHL forward, didn't want to underestimate the importance of the line. "The center is the conductor of the play. He has to direct traffic, move the puck, and keep a lookout of each corner of his eye to see if the wings are making a faux pas. It's his center ice work that decides whether you score...