Word: robber
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most states, judges can sentence a convicted robber, say, to between one and 20 years; the actual time the felon serves would depend on prison and parole authorities' judgment of his progress toward rehabilitation. That, says Illinois Criminologist Hans Mattick, "made drama schools out of prisons and actors out of prisoners." Under the Illinois plan, the judge will assign a specifically legislated term-two, three or four years for a robbery felony, depending on circumstances. The convict's sentence can be reduced only by accumulation of "good time"-a day off for each day of trouble-free prison...
DIED. Allen Lockerman, 70, former FBI special agent who took part in the slaying of Bank Robber John Dillinger; of cancer; in Atlanta. Lockerman, an agent at the bureau's Chicago office during the 1930s, also worked on the cases of such celebrated gangsters as Baby Face Nelson, Machine Gun Kelly and Pretty Boy Floyd...
Though the manifesto did not say so outright, it was clear that its authors considered the Polish Communist Party to be the usurper and the Soviet Union the robber. Demanding the restoration of "sovereignty and democracy," the manifesto called for "freedom of belief, thought, speech, information, assembly and work." It insisted specifically on the right to strike, on free trade unions, abolition of censorship and complete reform of the electoral system...
Christopher Andersen's "The Name Game" [Sept. 26] is plain obnoxious. He should note that "plain" Patricias include two Academy Award actresses (Neal and Duke-Astin), a Cabinet member (Harris) and a bank robber (Hearst). Andersen better get his first-name vibes down pat before he publishes them...
...developed on 20 Dodger farm teams. Rickey spent his final years calculating compound interest. Some players whom he sold for $150,000 are now unemployed. Historically, you did not make millions playing ball. You made millions by owning a ball club. I recall no consistent campaign against the ancient robber barons of sport, except in the Daily Worker, which had a limited following...