Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more confused than ever. Gaby Rouze told of having had dealings with "two women" who tried to buy the paintings with counterfeit bills. Later the police were sent off on a wild-goose chase to a supposed cache in a deserted grange in Antibes. Francis Roux has received three ransom notes demanding $8,000, $12,000 and finally, $16,000. Last week the police arrested a sixth suspect, who they think may have had the paintings for a while and then passed them on. But to whom? The suspect merely shrugged...
...board of regents named him to succeed retiring President Terris Moore, a brilliant rescue pilot who (quipped the campus newspaper) "spent more time in the clouds than in the classroom." Last week there was no such complaint as President Patty, 65, announced his own retirement in favor of William Ransom Wood, 53, academic vice president of the University of Nevada. All things considered, the nation's northernmost campus (100 miles south of the Arctic Circle) has never been in better shape...
...word, pronounced keednaping. But last week le crime américain was on every Parisian tongue. Little Eric Peugeot, an heir to one of France's greatest industrial (autos, appliances, heavy machinery) fortunes, was stolen in broad daylight and held for $100,000 ransom...
...nurse noticed that Eric was missing. A "nice man" had appeared, whispered "Come" to Eric, and led him away, said Brother Jean-Philippe. Other witnesses saw the kidnaper take Eric through a garden to an alley where an accomplice waited, appropriately enough, in a black Peugeot 403 sedan. A ransom note was found beside the sand pile, addressed to Eric's father, Roland Peugeot, 34, who is general manager of the auto company: "You are a member of the filthy rich. You must cough up 50 million francs if you ever want to see the kid alive again...
...bistro near the Arc de Triomphe. The bistro erupted in a fine frenzy of Gallic tears and cheers. The cops were summoned, and then Eric's father, who swept up his son in a blanket and carried him home. He had, reported Roland Peugeot, paid the kidnapers some ransom money, but would not say where or how much. "It was a personal agreement, and I am the only one to know what happened...