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...international competition, Williams studied movies of the teams in action. The Americans were faster, but they tended to slow down for the tricky pass, while the British made the transfer at full speed. The Americans also had a habit of waiting, hand low, palm down, trying to snatch the baton from their teammates. The British on the other hand, reached back, hand high, thumb up-and the incoming runner simply dropped the baton into his teammate's open palm...
...students who appeared at the Plympton St. scooter lot yesterday evening to snatch up one of the abandoned vehicles on sale by the HCUA were in for a surprise. Instead of a honey-mouthed auctioneer, they met a taciturn University cop, slowly shaking his head...
Argoud's terrorist career came to an abrupt end in February 1963 when he was kidnaped in a Munich hotel and deposited in a bloody bundle in the back of an abandoned panel truck in Paris. The French blandly disclaimed any participation in the snatch, and France's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville asserted that Bonn had never made formal application for Argoud's extradition...
That information, plus the confession of Irwin, enabled the FBI to arrest two other suspects-sometime Salesman Barry Keenan, 23, and Beach Bum Joseph Amsler. And John Irwin was still talking. Twice before, he said, he had been involved in a plan to snatch Sinatra. "Once in Arizona," he said, "we just missed connections." On a second occasion, Irwin said, he had convinced his partners that the plan should be abandoned. Both Keenan and Amsler were charged by federal authorities with kidnaping, an offense punishable by a maximum life term in prison. But Irwin was charged only with "aiding...
...selling sand in the Sahara. Though most Indians may not believe that life insurance causes death, many of them do feel that it defies and tempts the gods. For many Indians, furthermore, land seems the only smart investment, and attempts to sell them insurance are repulsed as schemes to snatch their money. There is, of course, little enough of that; the per capita income in India is only $69 a year, and people are so busy trying to keep alive that they have little time to worry about death...