Word: looted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country, arson is often a means of feeding drug habits. Unable to afford the tools to remove valuable brass plumbing, sinks, bathtubs and refrigerators in abandoned buildings, junkies pour inflammable liquid around the rooms, set a blaze and wait for firemen to chop up the floors, exposing the loot. Then the "mango hunters," as New York cops call them for their practice of reaping a harvest of stolen goods, move in, drag ou the fire-resistant fixtures and sell them -a bathtub is worth $25 on the open market, a wash basin $15. Some areas of New York are being...
...which Hellman (Fonda) smuggles $50,000 to Julia (Redgrave) and her antifascist comrades in Berlin. Director Zinnemann (High Noon) brings a Graham Greenesque sense of intrigue to this adventure, and he sets up a powerful climactic scene. When Hellman finally arrives in a smoky Berlin cafe to deliver the loot, her terse, hurried conversation with Julia sums up everything the film has been trying to say about friendship, political commitment and growing up. Simultaneously the two star performances crystallize. Fonda's Hellman, who has previously come across as a rather abrasive ninny, suddenly becomes a figure of some substance...
...long-abandoned safe-deposit boxes auctioned off last week in Worcester, Mass. The sale involved a total of 849 items-the leavings of Bay Staters who had died, moved away or had otherwise not touched their treasures for ten to 15 years. Aside from junk jewelry and silverware, the loot was a curious miscellany: a Mickey Mouse watch, three strips of lace, a cigar cutter, Confederate money, an old carburetor and an autographed program for a 1919 Rachmaninoff concert. Far from proving a love of lucre, the auction results suggest that Americans can be careless about money: the whole...
...policeman collars a mugger on a busy downtown street, but in his haste to make the arrest he forgets to take the names of any witnesses. A burglar is nabbed just as he is leaving the scene of the crime, but while the case against him seems powerful, his loot somehow gets lost in the labyrinth of police headquarters, and he must be set free. A woman catches a second-story man in her house, engages him in conversation, gives him a drink to get his fingerprints. When he flees she calls the police, who refuse to dust the glass...
Another stock swindler, named Edward Hugh Wuensche, was moved to England, where, as Hugh E. Winchester, he managed to loot a Maltese investment fund of $600,000 before being jailed. Joseph Barboza, a New England hit man with 27 murders to his credit, was relocated in San Francisco as Joseph Bently; shortly afterward, local authorities arrested him-for murder. Louis Bombacino, a Chicago hoodlum, was given a floor-sweeping job at the Arizona Public Service Co. in Tempe. He was eventually caught peddling irrigation equipment stolen from the company and profiting from a gambling-prostitution ring. Justice officials admit that...