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...Straight Life. Biggs fared little better. His escape from London's Wandsworth prison cost $112,000 for a furniture van fitted with a sliding roof and hydraulic lift, two getaway cars and a crew to operate them. Because nearly $110,000 of his swag was in traceable notes, he had to dispose of them in the underworld at a 50% discount. Escaping from England cost him $45,000 for a small boat, hiding places on either side of the Channel and escorts. Abroad he visited a plastic surgeon for expensive ($7,000) alterations to his face and fingertips...
...band of crooks disguised as robed members of the Church of the Cosmic Heart and a group of Chinese-American T-men impersonating Chinese laundrymen. The crooks want the bank's liquid assets; the agents want proof that the bank's president has been stashing swag for outlaws. Who will get there first...
Despite the pressure generated by the $10,000 swag ticketed for each member of the victors, Gibson has made only one, miserable mistake against Boston. In the third inning of the first game, he let pitcher Jose Santiago hit a home run; only one other runner has reached third base in the two games...
...offset losses by theft and the cost of extra-high insurance premiums, irk the residents of slum neighborhoods. Most of the stores pillaged and destroyed were groceries, supermarkets and furniture stores; of Detroit's 630 liquor stores, 250 were looted. Many drunks careened down Twelfth Street consuming their swag. Negro merchants scrawled "Soul Brother"-and in one case, "Sold Brother" -on their windows to warn the mobs off. But many of their stores were ravaged nonetheless...
...with shopping carts, picking and choosing with unwonted indifference to price tags. One young Negro mother was stopped by cops as she exited from a bicycle shop, her four children riding on shiny new tricycles. She was arrested, along with 350 other looters; countless others got away with the swag...