Word: pimpernels
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...Napoleon, her kid brother who dreams of becoming a Navy bombardier; Chuichi, a bitter boy who has been summarily dropped out of an American Army paratroop unit. Harold, a literate older brother, irreverently sabotages the ultra-patriotic camp newspaper by inventing a comic-strip character known as "the Nippon Pimpernel." Against an otherworldly background of Screenland magazines, Baby Ruth candy bars, and zoot suiters jitterbugging to the music of "the Jive Bombers, the true Mi-kados of swing," camp life is not all camp. The prisoners are soon polarized into two groups. On the one hand are the Super Japanese...
...freak out. He was busted for possession of marijuana and fled to Mexico. There he played at Outlaw for a while. Eventually he came back to the States, freaking out the California cops by appearing at public functions, even being interviewed on T.V., and then evaporating like the Scarlet Pimpernel...
...bombings and a Red Chinese-style "war of liberation." Three months after Mandela and Sisulu were convicted, Fischer was arrested as an accomplice. He then jumped a $14,000 bond and went into hiding - growing a goatee, dyeing his hair black and winning the romantic nickname of "the Scarlet Pimpernel" for his risky, catch-as-catch-can existence. Fischer was finally captured in Johannesburg last November - and convicted last week. His sentence: life imprisonment...
Bombs for Christmas. Foremost among the convicted Spearmen were Nelson Mandela, 45, the "Black Pimpernel," who led South Africa's Special Branch cops a merry chase before his capture two years ago, and Walter Sisulu, 52, bearded official of the banned African National Congress. For more than nine months, a stream of 186 witnesses passed through Pretoria's red brick Palace of Justice, documenting in 2,550,000 words of testimony the government's charges that Umkonto had planned a systematic, 18-month campaign of sabotage aimed at undermining apartheid...
...camps in Italy during World War II, set up an escape ring that smuggled hundreds of U.S. and British soldiers to freedom by disguising them as nuns, monks, bus drivers and garbage collectors, for which he won a chestful of Allied medals and the unofficial title 'Pimpernel of the Vatican"; of a heart attack; in Cahirciveen, Ireland...