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Isabela because of overcrowding in mainland prisons. The day before they boarded Valinda, the prisoners mutinied. They raided the arsenal, disarmed the few remaining guards, then pillaged Villamil (pop. about 200), the island's administrative settlement. Loading their loot into a pair of stolen boats, 21 of them set course for the mainland, hoping for a chance to seize a more seaworthy craft en route; Valinda became their prize...
Last week Welder Pierre tried again to double his loot, and cracked. The question: "To prepare a substitute for chinawood oil, castor oil is submitted to a careful pyrolysis. What are the two volatile compounds that are formed as byproducts?"* Pierre stood in anguished silence as the seconds and his millions slipped away. But after the disaster came a pleasant surprise: a consolation check for 1,000,000 francs from the sponsoring soapmaker...
Touch & Glow? In Washington, D.C., FBI agents gingerly arrested Brown Coleman and James Thompson while the two were loading into Coleman's car 20 lead bars stolen from the Naval Research Laboratory (where they were used as shields for experimental reactors), made a quick check, happily discovered the loot was not radioactive...
...FLYING BOX, by Mary McMinnies. An astonishingly good first novel about fumbling Britons who still pretend that they are carrying the white man's burden in Malaya. The decline and fall of Empire is measured by the spurious successes of a black-marketeering London spiv who finds loot among the ruins...
...Each His Own. In Denver, Bank Robber Clayton C. Kemp was nabbed as he boarded a bus, readily gave up the $11,200 loot, but when a cop grabbed the dollar bill he was clutching for bus fare, he yelled hotly: "Hey. that's my own money...