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...jobs that the English call "Yankee-style" crime. Robberies alone have soared by more than 200% (to some $5,000,000 yearly) in metropolitan London over the past decade, while payroll thefts have gone up almost 500% since 1960. Chief reason for the increase in "snatchings and takings," as Scotland Yard calls them, is that the underworld is now managed by executives with a flair for organization that outstrips the sleuths...
...watchman, the villains nonchalantly lugged forty 27-lb. gold bars-worth $560,000 -across a sidewalk into a blue delivery van, then made a clean getaway despite a traffic-stopping dash the wrong way on a one-way street. Hoping to keep the culprits from leaving the country, Scotland Yard posted men at every airfield and seaport in Britain. Flying-squad officers checked every small foundry in London on the off-chance that they might nab the gang in the act of melting their haul into easily portable nuggets...
...week's end the New Lavender Hill Mob, as Fleet Street inevitably christened it, was still at large-probably, guessed Scotland Yard, holed up within metropolitan London. Unlike Alec Guinness' mob, which melted down its loot into solid-gold Eiffel Tower souvenirs and shipped them to Paris, the real-life quartet probably aimed to export its bullion to India, where gold fetches twice the world market price. "I see no reason why they should be caught," said one expert. "They have a market for it all ready. It's that kind...
...closer to hand. As much as Vatican protocol allowed, he was an open-door Pope, and his welcome always seemed warmest for those he called his "separated brethren." An Archbishop of Canterbury came to call for the first time since 1397; so did a Moderator of the Church of Scotland, a president of a Negro Baptist church, the Presiding Bishop of the U.S. Protestant Episcopal Church...
...does titillate the popular taste. In the past ten years the ten novels in which he figures have sold more than 11 million copies in the U.S. and abroad. And now at last the varlet pimpernel can be seen on the screen. He looks pretty good. As portrayed by Scotland's Sean Connery, he moves with a tensile grace that excitingly suggests the violence that is bottled in Bond. But somehow the poor chap almost always manages to seem slightly silly-he can hardly help it in a story like this...