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...make the setup sweeter, the loot is dirty money, the kind of quarter-million-dollar nest egg socked away by people with the same ethics as the coke-snorter and the quartermaster. "Crooks," as the alarms expert points out, "are the only ones who can't holler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Devalued $ | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

With all the loot that was coming their way, the cops finally grew finicky about what they would accept. "I don't want Pall Mall, either," a cop complained on tape to an informant, who then asked: "What about Winston?" Sniffed the cop: "No, I don't know anybody that smokes Winston." When an informant offered to procure some "Sherry Herring" for a cop, the officer remonstrated: "Cherry Heering, Cherry Heering. If you're going to be a dealer in liquor, you have to know your stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICE: Cops as Pushers | 11/8/1971 | See Source »

Steal This Book is a do-it-yourself guide to revolution by Yippie Abbie Hoffman. It has earned hefty profits from 200,000 customers who have ignored the title and forked over $1.95 each. But does Abbie really deserve all the loot he is getting? Not according to Tom Forcade, who charged before a counterculture kangaroo court of Manhattan radicals that Abbie owes him some $8,500 for editing and helping publish the book. And not according to Izak Haber, who says he conceived the idea for Steal, did 90% of the research, wrote a 700-page manuscript that Abbie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 13, 1971 | 9/13/1971 | See Source »

...agents awaited their furtive entrance. By the time the roundup was completed, the agents had nabbed the eight intruders as well as 20 of their confederates who had been assigned various sentinel and communications tasks outside the court house. All were indicted on charges of conspiracy to loot federal offices in Camden. Among those apprehended were two Roman Catholic priests, Peter Fordi, 34, of New York City, and Michael J. Doyle, 37, of Camden; a Lutheran minister, Milo M. Billman, 39, of Camden; seven women, none over 26, and the mastermind of the peace movement's self-styled "Commandos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Ambush at the Courthouse | 9/6/1971 | See Source »

When Actress Sophia Loren arrived in Manhattan last October, she was robbed of $1,000,000 in jewelry. Last week, returning to make a film, she discovered that the October rascals had just been snared, but that no loot had been recovered. Determinedly sitting through a series of police lineups, Sophia successfully fingered the two culprits, then departed to shoot scenes in an appropriate location: thief-infested 42nd Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 19, 1971 | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

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