Word: underworlders
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...They just happened to fall into this thing," Sawyer said yesterday. "It was a question of misjudgement. There is no indication they were connected with the underworld or selling the guns. It was just their hobby, that's all. They collected guns the way other people play golf or raise chickens...
...sued Paris-Match for libel and collected out of court from Italy's Tempo Illustrato).) Besides, Ward began to talk, and to Labor M.P. George Wigg he unfolded a tale, as Wilson described it in the Commons, that "took the lid off a corner of the London underworld-vice and dope, marijuana, blackmail and counter-blackmail, violence, petty crime." Added Wilson gratuitously: "If Ward's statement had been published as a fiction paperback in America, it would have seemed overdrawn and beyond belief...
...crime. Robberies alone have soared by more than 200% (to some $5,000,000 yearly) in metropolitan London over the past decade, while payroll thefts have gone up almost 500% since 1960. Chief reason for the increase in "snatchings and takings," as Scotland Yard calls them, is that the underworld is now managed by executives with a flair for organization that outstrips the sleuths...
...headlines by knowledgeable thefts of priceless silver from stately homes, whose doughty walls, it seems, scarcely quiver when burglars blast open the pantry safe. One victim, the Marquess of Bristol, learned recently that $56,000 worth of silver pinched from his mansion last February is now in Russia. Another underworld spectacular that fascinated Britons was carried out last year by eight dapper dastards in bowler hats, and dark suits and carrying tightly furled umbrellas, who marched into London airport, grabbed a $175,000 airline payroll, and beat an elegant retreat in two matching blue Jaguars...
...Wrong Arm of the Law. The Sellers Syndicate, as students of cinema crime are well aware, long since wrested control of London's underworld from the Lavender Hill Mob. Smart Alec Guinness went south for his health, and a report from Arabia indicates that he has moved in on the territory of the Turk. Now it is Sneaky Pete Sellers' turn to meet some cheeky competition. In this cops-and-robbers comedy from Britain, some unspeakable gorillas from Australia put the muscle on the great man, and he is not one bloody little bit amused...