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...call promised the big chance. The caller tipped him to "the biggest robbery pulled since the Brink's job"-the theft of $200,000 from a safe in Houston, some 200 miles to the east. The voice even gave Cook the address and automobile license number of the robber...
...character displacement," it will mean that all existing philosphies will have to be rethought. Everyone knows that science determines the nature of the prevalent world view. In the eighteenth century Newton forced Alexander Pope to write in rhyming couplets, and in the nineteenth century Darwin caused the birth of Robber Barons and the death of Louis Agassiz. Now, once again (almost with the frequency of the Russians) science has changed its party line, leading one to suspect that it favors "struggle" theories in odd centuries and "harmony" theories in even ones. Scientists may enjoy the stimulation of constantly changing ideas...
...Malory's Morte d'Arthur. "Malory was wrong," says Novelist Treece flatly. He admits that his own hard-boiled debunking may be no less wrong, but Treece at least tunes his legend to the barbaric realities of 6th century Britain, with its Saxon seawolf marauders, its roving robber bands, its shattered relics of the Pax Romana, its poor riven land where man's hand was at his neighbor's pocket or throat...
Wrong Approach. In Denver, Hotel Desk Clerk Mrs. Burnace Hadley, 49, hit an armed robber on the head with a nightstick, made a direct hit on him with a vacuum bottle as he stepped back, rapped him on the fingers with the club when he made a last grab for the hotel's money, explained to police after he fled: "He made me mad with his brashness...
...year reign will end when his term expires on Jan. 1. Binford banned Ingrid Bergman films after she married Roberto Rosselini, all Chaplin movies, any picture he thought had too much sex in it, almost any film portraying Negroes in other than servile roles, any movie depicting a railroad robber (he was once on a train that was robbed). "The way it looks, there may not be any censor boards soon," he said morosely. "We try to do what the public demands, and the public is getting more liberal all the time...