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...heist that lasted just two minutes. In that brief time, the four stickup men netted what was probably the biggest holdup haul in French history: $3,540,000. But the question that bedeviled Frenchmen last week was what in the world the culprits thought they could do with their loot. The bandits had made off with newly minted, neatly packaged, bronze-colored ten-franc coins-1,770,000 of them, to be exact-that weighed 17.7 tons and would require nearly 30 cu. yds. of space merely to store. If the four bandits each spend $100 per day of their...
...police informers don't spot them). Moreover, several national passions-ranging from tippling to the weekly tierce horse race-force cafes to keep large amounts of coins on hand. Last year two crooks who had stolen $80,000 in one-franc coins tried to convince police that the loot was unrecoverable because they had spent it on that greatest French coin guzzler of all-the pinball machines...
...with 300 sink stoppers and another with a case of clothespins. Two young boys were spotted carrying away an end table. "Where'd you get that thing?" a cop shouted. "My momma give it to me?you can have it," said one of the kids as they dropped their loot and dashed into a crowd that was happily watching a blazing furniture store...
...York City last week-has also been endorsed by a Boston federal judge, no less. When Jane Benduzek, 40, admitted embezzling $84,958 from Boston's South Shore National Bank, where she was a teller, Judge Frank Murray was told that she had felt "entitled" to all that loot. She used much of it to help right such "wrongs'" as the financial setbacks suffered by her brother, who has seven children, and her father, whose pension had evaporated when the milk company he worked for went bankrupt. Mrs. Benduzek also apparently felt entitled to a $6,000 boat...
...atrocities committed by vengeful Russian soldiers along the route to Berlin have been acknowledged as "excessive" even by Soviet military historians. Solzhenitsyn coolly chronicles the passage of troops through Prussia as they swill schnapps, set fire to towns and villages, rape and murder German civilians and loot houses of items ranging from vacuum cleaners to Vienna rolls. As the narrator, Solzhenitsyn at first remains aloof, offering a succession of vignettes of violence without comment. Only once does his voice break, seemingly to signify some greater grief than the desolation of war. The moment comes when the narrator sights an "endless...