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...crime of violence inspired by vast greed." For their parts in the $7,369,000 robbery of the royal mails last August (most of the money has not yet been recovered), seven of the men drew 30 years apiece, only one got less than 20.* "Don't worry, Mum, I'm still young," shouted out one of the men who had received a 25-year sentence, as guards hustled him away. But even with maximum time off for good behavior, he will in fact be nearly 50 when he gets...
Plan for Victory. To both Lucas and Considine, MacArthur disclosed a plan for winning the Korean War-a plan that the "Anglo-Saxonphiles" stubbornly and successfully opposed. "I could have won the war in Korea in a maxi mum of ten days," he told Considine, "with considerably fewer casualties than were suffered during the so-called truce period, and it would have altered the course of history." The plan called for an air strike with "between 30 and 50" atomic bombs just north of the Yalu River (sec map). This would have wiped out the enemy's air capability...
...Connery was born in Edinburgh, where his father was a truck driver. He quit school at 15, joined the Royal Navy at 16, and was medically discharged at 19 for stomach ulcers. He bears two souvenirs of his Navy career tattooed on his forearm: "MUM AND DAD" and "SCOTLAND FOREVER." He worked at odd jobs like coffin polishing. Then a friend told him that a dancer was needed for the chorus of the London production of South Pacific. Connery took a fast 48 hours of private dancing lessons...
...other Republican prospects, Richard Nixon was mum about politics last week, but got some press notices with the announcement that the 94-year-old New York law firm of Mudge, Stern, Baldwin & Todd will henceforth be known as Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander. Michigan's Governor George Romney, whose chances for the nomination dimmed after he failed to get his state tax reform program through the legislature, went handshaking in Detroit, greeted downtown shoppers by saying "Hi there. This state had a deficit when we took office, but now it has a surplus. Merry Christmas." And in Illinois...
...with decorations for heroism, the beloved dictator smiles. He raises his arm in a smart, left-handed salute. Suddenly his mother begins banging a spoon against the banister downstairs: "Hey, your boiled egg is stone-cold." All right, luv. He goes to breakfast, gets ready for work, listens to Mum, Dad and Granny whining platitudes until he turns from his shaving mirror just long enough to mow them down with a tommy...