Word: kidnappings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Denis Hillier, a middle-aged spy looking forward to retirement, embarks on his last mission: to kidnap a turncoat British scientist named Roper, who is cooking rocket fuel for Russia. Adventures both sexual and gastronomic occur en route, for Hillier is a gluttonous satyr. Men die bloodily, some of them propelled into the hereafter by Hillier himself. The mission fails, not for want of Hillier's trying, but because his quarry refuses to go back...
...flair for gaudy promotion, he has equipped his golden-tailed jets with golden toilet seats. His public-relations men once hired two dozen dwarfs, dressed them in golden space suits and sent them romping through hotel lobbies in a promotion stunt; another time, the p.r. men tried to "kidnap" a Chicago White Sox second baseman from a helicopter...
...Candy gave him $7,000 to kill Mossler, and an ex-con carnival worker said that Mel offered $10,000 for the same job, the defense produced both men's wives to testify that their husbands were liars. Another con, who claimed that Mel had asked him to kidnap Mossler, was so deflated by Foreman that part of his confused and contradictory testimony was stricken...
...student in pre-World-War-I Moscow, explaining to his superior that he would rather practice than do research, on account of liking people. But as it turns out, Zhivago spends most of his life writing poems, and the only time he practices his trade is when the Bolshiveks kidnap him and force him to care for the people he loves so dearly...
Married. Leonard K. Firestone, 58, son of the late rubber magnate, Harvey S. Firestone, and intended victim of an abortive multimillion-dollar kidnap plot two months ago; and Barbara Knickerbocker Heatley, 50, widow of a San Francisco banker; both for the second time; in Carmel, Calif...