Word: ransoming
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...Rebecca, 9 (daughter of Orson Welles), frolicking at Lake Tahoe, Cinemactress Rita Hayworth, with her fourth husband, Crooner Dick Haymes, in tow, journeyed to nearby Reno for the climax of a Versailles among divorce settlements. Yasmin was the prize. For her, Prince Aly signed away a princess's ransom of the estimated $500 million fortune of his aging (77) father, Ago Khan, who dotes on Yasmin and will treasure her as one of his four heirs.* To Rita will come more than $1,500 a month for Yasmin's support until she comes into her inheritance. In return...
...slave of the people, and today I free myself for eternal life. But this people to which I was a slave will no longer be a slave to anyone. My sacrifice will remain forever in your soul, and my blood will be the price of your ransom...
...World Court last week dropped from its docket a $637,894 suit filed by the U.S. against Hungary and the Soviet Union. The case involved an Air Force C-47 forced down on Hungarian soil by Communist fighter planes, and then confiscated. The sum requested included the $123,605 ransom the U.S. had to pay Hungary to free the plane's four-man crew...
...years that followed his great oath of vengeance. Villages over an area of 8,000 square miles learned to tremble at news that his gang was near. Few moneylenders dared call in the police when Man Singh sent them the chopped-off finger of a kidnaped relative demanding ransom for the rest of him, for the dacoit's punishment of informers was swift and bloody. But Man Singh, for all his legendary ruthlessness, was still a man of some honor who was always generous to the poor and considerate of women. After killing a policeman in line of duty...
...Louis policemen-Lieut. Louis Shoulders and Rookie Elmer Dolan-were hailed as heroes for arresting the kidnap-killer of little Bobby Greenlease, but their glory faded fast: half of the $600,000 ransom had vanished. Dolan was suspended from the force, and Shoulders resigned; then both were convicted of perjury for lying about handling the ransom money...