Word: stoles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...similar development, Leslie Bricusse's abominable "Talk to the Animals" stole best song away form Burt Bachrach's "The Look of Love...
Matteo Calacocci was seven years old when he stole $7 from the counter of a North End grocery store. That was in 1927. After being judged "incompetent to stand trial," he was sent to the Lyman School, where he was found "not feeble-minded," "not psychotic," and of "average" intelligence. Transferred to Worcester State Hospital in 1930 and to Boston State in 1933, he attempted to escape in 1935 and was transferred to the maximum security facility at Bridgewater. His records show that he was charged with "bad habits" and with "resisting authority...
...insane asylums for 19 years. His hang-up is automobiles, and it has brought him a lot of trouble. In fact, in the gentle word of a psychiatrist, he "eloped" from one Washington, D.C., hospital at least three times to be with cars - cars that each time he stole and drove all over the country. In 1965, he was picked up for stealing yet another car. Gerald entered an insanity defense and was acquitted. Immediately after ward he was sent to a hospital for the in sane - as is anyone, in most U.S. courts, who successfully pleads insanity...
...Gerald filed a habeas corpus petition, arguing that simply because he had agreed he was insane when he stole the car did not mean that he was insane now. Persons who are civilly committed are entitled to a formal commitment hearing, and, he argued, he should not be treated any differently...
...line has never had a fatality, in spite of plenty of close calls. Once Petersen was forced down on frozen Rhone River. On the ground he laid a spruce-bough SOS, and after he had been spotted, had to wait helplessly for several more days while his rescuer stole some of his business...