Word: overnighters
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...down in mid-courtyard. As so often happens in the terrorist war, the two assassins escaped in the confusion. In angry frustration, Tuong's nephew seized a long knife, raced next door and stabbed to death the man who had taken the assassins into his house overnight...
Nobody hurried. Aboard his blue overnight train from Bonn, Ludwig Erhard snoozed for two hours on a siding along the Mosel so as not to get to Paris too soon. When he finally arrived at the Elysee Palace, Charles de Gaulle kept him waiting another 28 minutes...
Rare Praise. Such praise has not been earned overnight. Berkeley's "finest" have been building their reputation ever since the force was founded. In 1905, August Vollmer, a self-educated criminologist, noticed that the then 130-year-old city had no police force and decided to start one. His name is still legend in law enforcement circles for the methods that he pioneered. His stiff rules of conduct are now standardized as a code of ethics for police across the country. His department was the first to use blood, fiber and soil analysis in detection (1907); the first...
Beaming like bridegrooms, officers of New York's Manufacturers Trust Co. and the Hanover Bank five years ago proudly announced a corporate wedding: the nation's seventh and 17th largest banks were merging into Manufacturers Hanover Trust, which, with $6 billion in assets, almost overnight became the U.S.'s fourth biggest bank. The marriage was hardly consummated, however, before a federal judge ordered divorce proceedings on grounds of antitrust violation. Bankers were faced with the staggering project of unraveling 135 merged offices and a million depositors. Last week, after five years of uncertainty, the marriage was saved...
...unnamed hero is swept up in a mass arrest of Algerian demonstrators, taken to an overnight concentration camp in the Sports Palace, and released to go back first to his mistress, a free-swinging Galician tart, and then with his hook and mallet to the old job in the slaughterhouse. Through all this there clings to him "the typical boiled cabbage smell of all immigrants." It is his fault. He clings throughout to a cabbage, the "authentic proof of my innocence and my simplicity"-and of his official guilt. To the police, it makes him an Arab. He loses...