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...connected hood who was on parole from an armed-robbery conviction. Unable to resist enjoying his new wealth, he ordered a sporty 1979 Thunderbird -and paid for the car with $9,000 in cash. He also bought a new Cadillac for his girlfriend. Before he picked up the T-bird, however, FBI agents fitted it with an eavesdropping bug and a small radio transmitter that constantly signaled its whereabouts. Sepe's next mistake was to boast about the Lufthansa caper to passengers in his car -taped conversations that the FBI found most interesting, especially those with Peter Gruenewald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Cracking the Lufthansa Caper | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

When agents began to question Gruenewald, he decided it would be prudent not to answer. Instead, he booked airline flights to Bogota, Manila, Tokyo, Taiwan, anywhere far from Queens. Learning of this, FBI agents decided they could wait no longer. They seized Sepe, whose beeping radio made his T-bird easy to follow, and they also grabbed Gruenewald and Werner. The good listener was charged as a material witness. The FBI hopes that his detention will lead gang members to feel that someone who knows a lot is telling all, thus causing even more falling out among the thieves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Cracking the Lufthansa Caper | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...even invigorating. Whether by accident or design, she has become one of America's last old-fashioned dream girls: pretty, yet down to earth; inviting, yet wholesome. When she flashes her Cinemascope smile, men do not feel lust so much as nostalgia. Like the blonde in the T-bird in American Graffiti, Farrah Fawcett-Majors is the girl that every boy chased after in high school but could never quite find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: An Angel in Distress | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...Douce Coupe." You were all so close, some of you were even correct. The right answer ("Till the Lake pipes roar") often came out "Till the late night roar," "Till the leg pipes roar," "Till my leg bites roar," "Till my leg roars," and "Till her daddy takes the T-Bird away...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: 'Disk Frisk' Entries More Bizarre Than Questions | 1/26/1977 | See Source »

Spiro had "a certain aura of being cool," says Emile Lafourcade, secretary of Spiro's fraternity. "Anyone who could drive around in a new T-Bird when everybody else was going around in '59 junk-heaps had something up on the rest...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: A Rose by Any Other Name | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

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