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Crooked savings-and-loan executives are not the only ones running off with loot these days. Old-fashioned stickup men are doing pretty well too. Bank robberies in the U.S., which declined during the first half of the 1980s, increased to 6,691 last year, a 23% rise from 1985. Unfortunately, crime often pays. Of $50 million taken from banks last year, only 20% has been recovered. The most common technique is the tried-and-true "note job," in which a robber simply hands a threatening note to the teller...
Residents of northern Colorado can sleep a little easier now that 82-year-old Jack Kelm is back behind bars. Two weeks ago, police nabbed the octogenarian as he pedaled away from an alleged stickup at a Longmont, Colo., bank on a stolen bicycle. Kelm has confessed to a string of stickups committed, he said, to supplement his Social Security check. With a rap sheet covering nearly seven decades, he is believed to be the oldest bank robber on record. If convicted of all charges, Kelm could be sentenced to 120 years in the slammer...
...Power to the imagination! Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre declared the upheaval "the extension of the limits of the possible." At Columbia University, Mark Rudd, a scion of Corporate America, borrrowed an epigram from the street poet LeRoi Jones (now Amiri Baraka): "Up against the wall, motherf*****, this is a stickup...
...them for almost a week. Mark Rudd, a Columbia junior with a gift for confrontational theater, led an "action faction" of S.D.S. He wrote an open letter to University President Grayson Kirk, which he closed with a line from LeRoi Jones: "Up against the wall, m, this is a stickup." With some of the student movement's talent for converting disrespect to symbolic desecration, the occupation forces moved into Kirk's office, smoked his cigars (one student with his feet perched on Kirk's desk, an act of smirking and virtually Oedipal lese majeste -- O.K., Dad, whatcha gonna do about...
...words "I sentence you . . ." Whether to slap the wrist or slam the cell door is a complex and partly subjective decision in which the particulars of the crime, the history of the culprit and the disposition of the judge all play a part. No wonder, then, that a stickup may draw anything from hard time to probation and defense lawyers maneuver to get their cases heard by judges known to go easy...