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...perpetrators of the stunt, a Lowell and a Leverett House man thoughtfully left a note in the tower explaining how to remove the green paint with a damp rag...
...trays, like those at the Graduate Center, are divided into six pie-like sectors, with a hole in the center for a cup or glass. Unlike the old Devinewear, they will be made from a new plastic instead of old G.I. socks and underwear. The lack of a rag content makes the new trays easier to break and less heat resistant...
Many of them were just barely able to hobble. They put one frozen, straw-shod and rag-bound foot in front of the other, at a pace that could not have exceeded a few hundred yards an hour. Some of them wept with pain as they walked, others lay sprawled grotesquely on the frozen stubble by the roadside, in the deathlike sleep of utter exhaustion. One R.O.K. rifleman was crawling on his hands and knees, his Garand still slung across his back, when some G.I.s with an I. and R. (Intelligence and Reconnaissance) platoon found him and packed...
...story and anxiously opened the letter. Clumsily lettered, it read: "Your child has-been kidnaped . . . The amount is $20,000. cash or negotiable bonds. Put same in envelope on top of your Sol y Lomas gate tonight if you can. If not until tomorrow night put a red rag as sign ... If not at all-your kid will die of cold and hunger. New Mexico is an easy place to lose a body. Do not talk about this to police, FBI or friends. Any effort to interfere with our messenger, the child dies...
...Stamms put out a red rag, then notified police. The next night 30 policemen and FBI agents, equipped with walkie-talkie radios, were hiding in the vicinity of the Stamms' wooded estate, on the road to Las Vegas, when a figure shuffled past and reached under a rock by the gate. As police pounced, their captive protested: "I'm just a go-between...