Word: m
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stolen two-ton refrigerated fish truck lettered M. SLAVIN & SONS rolled into the underground garage of Chase Manhattan Bank's national headquarters in the Wall Street district last week carrying a cargo of armed robbers. Less than half an hour later, the truck drove out with over $2 million taken from a Brink's armored car. While the caper was the biggest and most professional of last week's heists in New York City, it was just one of 25 bank holdups in five days. New York's bank-robbery rate is up a whopping...
...leave from his job with the U.S. Postal Service because of emotional problems. Clouser's lawyer stated that his client wanted to "exonerate Father Pagano of acts for which he was wrongly charged." Said Clouser: "Father Pagano has unjustly suffered for six months." He added: "I'm not a habitual confesser and I'm not a masochist. I just don't want to see the wrong man go to jail...
...prosecution dropped all charges against the priest. "The state extends a sincere apology to Father Pagano," said Delaware Attorney General Richard Gebelein. Yet several policemen still suspect Pagano. "I'm convinced that we had the right man," says one. "If I didn't think he did it, he wouldn't be here." The policemen point out that Clouser failed to pass a lie detector test when he declared his guilt...
BORN. To Rod Stewart (Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?), 34, raspy-voiced rock star, and Alana Collins Hamilton, 33, an actress formerly married to Actor George Hamilton: a daughter, his first child, her second; in Los Angeles. Name: Alana Kimberly...
...were hundreds of spectators on the beach, and they cheered when Diana Nyad came ashore last week in Jupiter, Fla., the first person ever to swim from the Bahamas to the U.S. "I feel like the F train in New York just ran over me, but emotionally I'm exhilarated," exulted Nyad between sips of champagne and whiffs of oxygen. The marathoner attempted the feat three weeks ago, but gave up after being stung by a Portuguese manofwar; this time she sprayed herself with latex, "prayed to the Portuguese man-of-war god," and proceeded to finish...