Word: watchman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outwitted Watchman. For the U.S. as well as Britain, Cynthia's most valuable coup was to capture the secret code used by the Vichy government's diplomatic missions as well as the French fleet, which might otherwise have taken thousands of Allied lives during the invasion of North Africa. Posing as a Washington newshen, Cynthia had already seduced the dashing Captain Brousse, then the press attache in the Petain government's Washington embassy; by playing on his hatred of the Nazis, she made him a willing ally. "I was not just indulging his desires...
...time and for all time the ancient vision of 'peace on earth, good will toward men.' That must always be our goal-and the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. Or, as was written long ago: 'Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain...
Last week Schoeters and his associates were being held for questioning, and a coroner's inquest of the watchman's death was scheduled to reopen. If Quebec's "liberators" are found criminally negligent, at least six "suicide commandos" will probably stand trial for murder...
Last week Britons could talk of little else but a cool little coup in which four men swiped a half-ton of gold from a financial-district bullion warehouse in the lunch hour. After tying up a watchman, the villains nonchalantly lugged forty 27-lb. gold bars-worth $560,000 -across a sidewalk into a blue delivery van, then made a clean getaway despite a traffic-stopping dash the wrong way on a one-way street. Hoping to keep the culprits from leaving the country, Scotland Yard posted men at every airfield and seaport in Britain. Flying-squad officers checked...
...eleven weeks a campaign of terror has rocked the French Canadian province of Quebec, and sent shock waves rippling all across Canada. Last month a bomb ex plosion killed the night watchman at a Montreal army recruiting center. A fortnight ago, 13 time bombs were found in mailboxes in a Montreal suburb, and a Canadian army explosives expert was critically injured when one of them went off in his face. Last week 18 more sticks of dynamite were found planted in mailboxes in Quebec City, and an explosion shattered offices at the Montreal armory of the Royal Canadian Electrical...