Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want to have to take my children back to the cold of England," she says. Whatever her plans, she will have some money at last. Australian Consolidated Press is paying $78,400 for the story of how her husband's ill-gotten gains from the great train robbery were quickly drained...
...unlucky," he said. At the time the remark mystified the neighbor. Last week, after police swarmed into the neighborhood in search of Cooke, he understood. Cooke, actually Ronald Arthur Biggs, 39, was the only man still free of the 15 who halted a Glasgow-to-London Royal Mail train in 1963 and looted it of $7,300,000. Caught and sentenced to 30 years in jail, Biggs escaped in 1965. The last thing he wanted in his Australian hideaway was the publicity of a lottery hit. Even so, the $28,000 would have been nice. Biggs' $265,000 share...
Hellish Times. Ever since the great train robbery, things have gone steadily downhill for the bandits who made off with 120 sacks of money. Most were captured before they could spend more than a few quid. Those who eluded Scotland Yard for a while had a hellish time, and it is clear that little of the $6,400,000 that is still unaccounted for went towards riotous living. Consider some of Biggs' accomplices...
Forty students last night turned on an entire subway train to happiness...
...POSSIBLE THEATRE by Sfuarf Vaughan. 255 pages. McGraw-Hill. $6.95. Able Actor-Director Vaughan left Broadway 15 years ago with egocentrifugal force, but this account of his subsequent travels and travails has the prose urgency of a milk train...