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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Increased precautions began in mid July with the microfilming of the Union catalogue and other irreplaceable records. Douglas W. Bryant, University Librarian, said that the filming of the more than five million cards would be done within the next few weeks...
...financing will reduce the money customers owe the Coop-currently one million dollars-and eventually eliminate the nine per cent interest the Coop must pay on those accounts. Coop president Milton Brown estimated that the new system will save the Coop about $90,000 a year...
...three businessmen bought a big milling plant from the Pillsbury Co. for $550,000, and the deserted 98-ft.-high silos, which once stored a million bushels of wheat, were part of the deal. At first they seemed a problem. "We thought of uses for all the buildings but-the silos," recalls Joseph D. Travis Jr., 48, "and we knew they would be expensive to pull down." Then Travis, remembering reports of California's flourishing singles colonies, suggested to his partners, William C. Erwin Jr. and James E. Kavanaugh, that they could turn the silos into apartments...
Charlie, on parole, conceives a plan to steal $4 million from a stronghold in Turin, Italy. Mr. Bridger finds it a simply wizard idea and puts up expense money. Alas, Charlie's elephantine ambitions arise from a gnat-sized intellect. His gang is so crooked that none of them can drive straight. They wreck cars, argue with each other, assault fat ladies on the Turin buses and infuriate the Mafia by treading on its turf. Throughout, Charlie's eyes remain at half-mast; his lassitude finally lulls the crooks, the polizia-and the audience. Caine and Coward play...
From Big Deal on Madonna Street to How to Steal a Million, film makers have been trying to perfect the genre known in the trade as "caper comedies," films which center around a masterminded robbery. Like most criminals, however, the creators expend all their energies on the heist and not nearly enough building their characters...