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Health Faddist. The stakeout last week came after four dynamite blasts within two days rocked New York City's Chase Manhattan Bank headquarters, the RCA Building, the new General Motors Corp. offices and the Criminal Courts Building. With New Yorkers on edge and the city's twelve-man bomb squad in a "state of exhaustion," the FBI tailed its suspects to a mid-Manhattan armory where agents witnessed two men place four time bombs in a National Guard truck. Arrested and charged with conspiring to damage Government property were Samuel Melville, 34, a health faddist and sometime plumbing...
...best Dragnet fashion. Detectives Charles Fitzgerald and Herbert Wilk got her picture identified, discovered her modus operandi, and put a stakeout on her neighborhood. Maggie, meanwhile, decided to lie low, after a $500 score in an A. & P. market last August. She went to Miami for a while, then to Las Vegas, finally settled down as a waitress in Galveston's redlight district. She got a little nervous there, mostly because she had to serve a lot of big Texas cops. Once she even went out on a date with a cop: "I wasn't much...
...south. Oil had been smelled, and in 1901 for $20,000 bleak-brained Shah Muzaffar-ed-Din gave an English financial adventurer named William Knox D'Arcy a 60-year monopoly to explore and exploit all Persia for petroleum except the five northern provinces in the Russian stakeout...