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...dangerous trip. Traffic thinned in thousands of cities as drivers pulled to the curb and tuned their radios. In Indianapolis, a judge halted courtroom proceedings so that all hands could watch a TV set that had been picked up by police as part of a thief's loot. Tension built steadily until the proud word came: Commander Shepard had landed safely in his space capsule, 302 miles downrange in the Atlantic, six miles from the predicted impact point. He and his capsule had been hauled from the sea by a Marine helicopter, and both were safely aboard the aircraft...
...annual spring riots...are a menace to the peace...of Cambridge residents and an invitation to criminals of all sorts who would loot an unprotected city," Sullivan said. He asserted that during the riots almost 90 per cent of the police force was on duty in the Square, with the result that the rest of Cambridge lay open to lawlessness...
Tipped off that some $30,000 in stolen jewelry had been cached in Buffalo, the FBI recovered part of the loot, while New York City cops gathered information that led to the arrest of four men and a wom an, members of a ring of international hotel thieves. Victim of the mid-January theft from her Savoy-Hilton Hotel suite in Manhattan: Patricia Kennedy Lawford, sister of the President and wife of Actor Peter Lawford...
...longer be encaged." At week's end Baltika sailed away, with out Jaanimets and without Khrushchev & Co., who had already gone home by turboprop. Instead, Baltika had a new car go: three cars (Cadillac, Oldsmobile, Comet), TV sets, air conditioners and a seven-ton truckload of capitalist loot for VIPs to take back...
...power and a clear field to work unhampered. The facts were, said he, that the Congo is near bankruptcy and total administrative collapse. ''Some [army] units have not got any pay for two months, and they have no food, with the result that they disobey orders and loot from the civilian population." The Congolese army in Kasai province was running wild, "engaged in slaughter not only of combatants but also of defenseless civilians." Some victims "were deliberately killed simply on the ground that they were Balubas," Hammarskjold said. "Should it be supposed that the duty of the United...