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...Ring. Denver's burgling cops were well organized and enjoyed obvious advantages. They cased jobs from police cars, returned at night to steal while lookouts monitored the police radio for alarm calls. Once the burglaries were discovered, the same policemen came back officially to investigate, were able to destroy any leftover evidence. In one case, an insurance company investigator discovered a pair of policeman's trousers near a burglary scene. Two city detectives confiscated the evidence ; the pants disappeared forever...
Finally the questionnaire asks for factual responses--what was Roger Maris' batting average this season; how many times did Louis Aparicio steal this year; what was Warren Spahn's 1961 pitching record. These questions gave Aronson a clue to the viewer's knowledge of baseball--important, Aronson said, because the more one knows, the closer he will be to predicting the real probability...
...once, the boredom is gone and the "hostiles" are there. They pounce on an isolated homestead, kill the men, rape and kill the women. The captain sends out a patrol commanded by a youthful officer who has just seen the elegant lieutenant, merely for the hell of it, steal his girl. With all the suption gone out of him, he blunders when he bivouacs and his troop is wiped...
...Guevara's Bristol Britannia finally landed back in Havana last week, the home folks cheered, and the rest of the hemisphere permitted itself a mighty sigh. Not only had Che done his best to steal the spotlight at the Alliance for Progress conference, but he managed to sow sweet confusion at every step along the road home, leaving behind one government toppled and another muttering dark thoughts. He even found a way to dangle a coexistence cigar before the U.S. White House and depart having given that implacable foe something to think about...
...fierce contest for subscribers between Knight's morning Free Press (573,273) and the independent News (733,583). The two papers have an agreement that binds them, under certain conditions, to shut down if either is silenced by a strike. But the News decided that the chance to steal a march on Jack Knight was too good to miss. It went right on printing...