Word: shops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face of the evidence, it was hard to see why Master Butcher Albert Roden, 50, chief defendant in last week's trial of "the King of German Cattle Thieves," had ever turned to rustling at all. For years, his butcher shop on Düsseldorf's Rethelstrasse, manned by his two sons and his bleached-blonde wife, Anna, had been grossing $2,000 a week. But as the trial progressed, a painfully familiar story emerged: in 1951 on a jaunt to nearby Bad Neuenahr Casino, Roden caught the roulette bug, began to drop as much...
...Spot of Cash." In time, he set up headquarters in Zurich, where an auburn-haired beauty-shop owner named Trudi Sommer, 29. was only too happy to have him share her apartment. She thought he was a Canadian test pilot named Johnny Bird. Then, one night last January, for reasons he was never quite able to explain, Hume wandered off to a church, where he drank up all the communion wine. Next morning, armed with a pistol, he turned up at a small branch of Zurich's Gewerbebank to help himself to "a spot of cash...
More ominous yet was the news from Baghdad itself. The once-ubiquitous portraits of Kassem disappeared from many a shop window; on several occasions Baghdad police were obliged to fire over the heads of crowds staging anti-Kassem demonstrations. And rumors persisted that there was grave unrest in the Iraqi army, where there was bitter mourning for the senior officer executed, popular Brigadier Nadhem Tabakchali, former commander of Iraq's 2nd Division...
Publisher Lottinville, onetime Rhodes scholar, speaks with authority. For 20 years, he has run his bustling, 40-man shop in the shadow of an oil derrick. Yet Oklahoma is known for more than oil. Over the years, its topflight press has published 426 books, ranging from the influential Plowman's Folly (340,000 copies sold) to last week's Athens in the Age of Pericles, the first of an intriguing series on great cities. Oklahoma's recent music books make it better known in Milan and Bonn than many a famed name on Manhattan's publishers...
...Communist Chinese troops fighting on India's border, a do-or-die stand by Khamba tribesmen in western Tibet. Even when the opportunity for independent sightseeing presented itself, the newsmen turned away; no one interviewed India's Consul General Shiv Lai Chhiber, spotted in a Lhasa rug shop, because, as one correspondent explained: "Our main interest was in social reforms...