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Strolling Plastiqueur. His odyssey started in Reno, where he sang for $5 in a cafe. Twanging through Western Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and India, he did not always do so well. He slipped into the kitchen at the Royal Palace in Copenhagen and strummed away to the delight of three scullery maids. But Denmark's King Frederick IX came to see what the noise was, listened for a while in amusement, then returned to his throne, leaving a hungry Bohn behind. Arriving in Algeria at the wrong time (November 1961), he strum-a-strum-strummed through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Troubadours: One-Man Peace Corps | 2/8/1963 | See Source »

Tired Cops. Beuve-Méry's hint of S.A.O. immunity was made explicit last week at Nimes, where a plastiqueur was to go on trial. Three members of the jury panel said they would serve only "under constraint"-reportedly they had received threatening S.A.O. letters.The judge fined them $10 each and postponed the trial. In Paris, the Societé Parisienne de Surveillance, largest of France's private detective agencies, was turning away business, told a prospective client who had been frightened by an S.A.O. threat: "We are up to our eyes in work. We may be able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The Time of the Killers | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

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