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Later, while the thieves were in the room, Wessels' telephone rang. Neumann went to answer it and surprised the youths, who then seized their loot and rushed past him, into a waiting car. They threw the records from the car window to avoid detection, but were soon picked up by Cambridge Patrolman David F. Cotter for "acting suspiciously...
...fluidly mounted flashbacks, four separate versions of the event are re-enacted. Up to a point the facts jibe. A bandit (Rod Steiger) has stalked a passing samurai (Noel Willman) and his wife (Claire Bloom) through a bamboo glade, decoyed the husband with promises of buried loot, trussed him up, and raped his wife before his eyes. The samurai is later found dead. According to the bandit, the wife baited him into killing her husband to gain her. The wife swears she killed him to spare him dishonor. Through a medium, the dead samurai claims that he heartbrokenly committed suicide...
...quote a onetime B-29 instructor: "I think a lot of us got embarrassed over the loot we got from the Government." Well, me and a couple million other veterans haven't collected any loot. I served six years in the Marine Corps in World War 11 and one year doing police action duty in Korea, but I don't go around bragging about what the hell I collected or what education I got from the Government. Everything I got I got on my own, no Government handout...
...about to span the U.S. in 5 ½hours, central geography is no longer such a factor in choosing political convention sites. More important to coffer-conscious political leaders is the amount that major U.S. cities are willing to pay for the prestige of a convention and for the loot that flows in for hotel rooms, meals, entertainment, etc. Last week, when Democratic National Committeemen met in New Orleans to pick their 1960 convention site, representatives of four cities-Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami and Philadelphia-were willing, and waving sizable sums of cash...
...gravy train, 8,500,000 joined the "52-20 Club," by 1949 spent up to 52 weeks (average: 19) drawing $20 a week in special unemployment pay. Says Seattle Teacher Otto N. Larsen, 34, onetime B-29 instructor: "I think a lot of us got embarrassed over the loot we got from the Government...