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...newsmen on an Oregon roadside thumbing rides to the Portland airport. One unscheduled dash in Michigan sent the party on a breakneck 82-mile round-trip drive to the Mackinac Straits Bridge, which Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams insisted on showing to Kefauver for the benefit of photographers. A padlock had to be broken before the candidate could get on the structure after nightfall-to greet a crowd of five workmen and one woman who had waited three hours for him. In the absence of any great demand from photographers, Governor Williams used his own camera...
...with all the bank employes accounted for, the bandits entered, herded eleven people into a 6 by 5 ft. vault, whose inner gate they locked with a chain and padlock foresightedly brought for the purpose. "Thank God they didn't close the vault doors," said one prisoner. The head teller collapsed in a faint and the others kept quiet. "I hugged the wall," said one later. "I wasn't going to get fresh." The hold-up men had eight minutes before opening time, and that was enough. By 9 a.m. the three bandits were quietly driving away with...
Last week, before three members of the government's Revolutionary Command Council, the Aboul Fath brothers were convicted of "aiming to destroy the government," "spreading propaganda abroad" hostile to the regime, and attempting to corrupt a government employee. Sentence: a padlock on Al Misri, ten years in prison for Mahmoud, tried in absentia, a suspended 15-year sentence for his brother, plus confiscation of more than $1,000,000 of the Aboul Fath property...
...Around Us propped awkwardly on his chest, covering a .22-cal. bullet hole. On a bed beside him was the barefoot body of his wife, her face cruelly beaten and a deep knife wound in her back. The murderer had locked the door behind him with a padlock. Working on the theory that the murders might have been a crime of passion, police began looking for the ex-convict who had rented the room...
...first manager to win five consecutive World Series championships. Native Dancer, a big grey horse with the legs of a champion and the inbred ham of a Barrymore. teamed with TV to make horse-racing fans out of millions who did not know a fetlock from a padlock. The year brought reminders of previous champions: Jim Jeffries died; so did Bill Tilden and Jim Thorpe. Handy Earl Sande, 54, and hard up for eating money, cinched on a saddle and tried for a comeback (but booted home only one winner). And in the biggest sweep since Bobby Jones...