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...week, after four men held up a Pepsi-Cola warehouse seven miles outside Caracas, an employee pursuing them down the highway stopped at a police checkpoint. "We have nothing to do with that," said the cop on duty. "Go to the technical judicial police." A few months ago, two prowl cars from different forces apparently answered the same call. A shot went off, and puzzled police in the two cars began firing at each other...
...scene is Afghanistan in 1946, where Russia and the U.S. are vying for influence in a country still ruled in spirit, if not in fact, by the reactionary mullahs. Bands of wolves prowl openly through the unpaved streets of the capital city of Kabul (pronounced cobble). Native women are seldom seen out of doors, and Western women who appear in the bazaar without wearing a veil are attacked and spat upon...
Healthy, wealthy, submersible Department Store Scion Peter R. Gimbel, 35, is wont to prowl around the ocean floor (he dived to the sunken Andrea Doria in 1956, again in 1957) when he is not busy with his career as an investment banker. Now rising above all that, young Gimbel joined a National Geographic Society expedition bound for the Peruvian Andes, early next month will parachute into the remote upper reaches (9,000-14,000 ft.) of the Vilcabamba range-an unmapped area never penetrated by outsiders and considered a possible site of early Inca civilization. Accompanying Gimbel on the three...
...Rome, the first green leaves last week peeped along the Lungotevere, and flowers sprouted behind sidewalk tables on the Via Veneto. Spring had come, and the ladies could not be far behind. As early as 9 a.m., tight-skirted hustlers prowl the square before Rome's modernistic railway station; by noon, they are ensconced on the benches of the Pincio Garden, casting provocative glances over the tops of sunglasses at passersby; by dinnertime, they begin congregating near Rome's biggest supermarket alongside Olympic Village and beside the vast ruins of the Baths of Caracalla...
Clients pay Willmark from $21 to $750 monthly per store for its services and its many pamphlets, which offer inspirational selling tips to employees and dire cautions to management. Though a sign on every cash register warns salespeople that Willmark is apt to prowl the store at any time, employees seldom spot the professional shoppers. Willmark hires only "ordinary-looking people," bans flashy blondes or conspicuous Don Juans. Its shoppers earn only $60 a week and expenses, but the job is much sought after, since it involves the pleasure of being paid to buy anything from expensive whisky to diamonds...