Word: robber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seven Adams House students were robbed in their sleep early yesterday morning of a total of nearly $40 and a collection of wallets, a watch, and a cigarette lighter. The unidentified robber was noticed only once...
...Stalin's bludgeon for more graceful tactics." Russia is now ruled not by a single dictator but by a group or junta. In comparison to Stalin ("Georgian suspicions, a mountaineer's narrow hatreds . . . the midnight habits of a proscribed revolutionary, the wolflike morals of a hunted bank robber") Salisbury found the junta composed of an outwardly pleasant bunch of men who thus, as a Western diplomat said, "are more dangerous than Stalin...
Laughing to Live. Rude bits of action interrupt these yarns. Amid flying swords and javelins, a robber tyrant takes Sita for his spoil, and the once dutiful wife rather likes it. In a war of comic confusion, Rama conquers the tyrant, wins Sita back, and, when his own evil father dies, resumes his rightful throne. The moral of it all? Rama asks as much of Poet Valmiki: "Is there anything that you believe is real?" Replies the poet (and the answer is obviously that of Hindu-Irish Author Menen): "Certainly, Rama. There are three things which are real: God, human...
Died. Gerhard A. Puff, 40, German-born bank robber who made the FBI's Top Ten in 1952; of electrocution; in Sing Sing. Sentenced to the chair for killing an FBIman in a 1952 Manhattan gun fight, deadpan Gunman Puff ordered two of the most sumptuous "last meals" in Sing Sing history, had been visited by no one in his 14 months, 23 days in the death house...
Expert Witness. In Buffalo, when neither of two holdup victims could identify the robber, Paul J. Kozma, 18, identified the victims, got a five-to-seven-year jail sentence...