Word: kidnaping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brazil-nut gatherers) who live along tributaries of the Amazon, the Caiapó Indians are bad medicine. Savage and naked, they lurk in the jungle until the men in caboclo settlements leave for the day's work. Then they swoop down, killing everyone but the girls, whom they kidnap. If they meet resistance, they fire thatched huts with flaming arrows, like Sioux attacking a covered-wagon train. Says an old trader: "The best thing to do when you see a Caiapó is to shoot first...
Upon hearing this, a group of heavier-than-air die-hards attempted to kidnap Osborne on Upper Plympton Street, near the offices of the CRIMSON. Osborne slipped through their fingers, however, and made his way to the Lampoon building by way of Linden Street...
...pigeon, they were fiercely loyal. They cracked the skull of a disgruntled convict who spoke ill of the Doc, and once they rushed him off to the safety of a storeroom when a few other cons staged an armed break. Later, Wilson learned that the jailbreakers had intended to kidnap him as a hostage...
...arrive at the conclusion before the author does: the talkative stranger is the matador himself, and the unfaithful wife is the "senorita" the writer has just made a date with. The best story in the book has a winning, straightforward charm; two little Scots boys, forbidden a "dawg," kidnap and care for a "babby" instead...
Near by in a parked yellow Buick convertible, cops found the kidnaped girl. Drugged with seconal, filthy, wrapped in rags, she was nonetheless alive. The doctor had taken Linda to her office, drugged her, left her tied up in an abandoned ranch house, while she herself spent the night some 70 miles away at Las Vegas. In the yellow convertible were two other notes addressed to other well-to-do Santa Fe parents, whose children Dr. Campbell apparently planned to kidnap if she had failed to snatch Linda...