Word: ransomes
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Historical Prank? Why did he go to so much trouble? The Goya was too well known to be sold. It was not insured (no national treasures are), and Her Majesty's government could hardly be expected to pay ransom-the most logical motive for most of the other robberies. At week's end, Scotland Yard was leaning to the theory that it was the work of some ingenious prankster with a highly dramatic sense of history. After all, the theft took place just 50 years to the day after a superpatriotic Italian workman named Vincenzo Perugia repatriated...
...Louvre's famous Card Players, which alone is valued at more than $1,000,000. What could the thieves possibly do with such recognizable loot? The police saw only one answer. The Riviera thieves were apparently a new breed of felon: paintnapers, who would hold the Cezannes for ransom...
...have been appointed by Diem or his brother because of their personal loyalty rather than their efficiency, and all too often they have taken advantage of their position to extort money from the peasants, throw local merchants into jail, nominally on suspicion of Communist sympathizing, in order to extract ransom. Thus, when the Viet Cong contrive the murder of some local official, the villagers frequently hail them as liberators...
...expected to dispose of easily recognized works. Reputable dealers and patrons would shun them. There was no insurance company to bargain with, since the city had no funds for $30,000 annual premiums that would have been necessary. The burglars' only hope of reward seemed to be in ransom, and Saint-Tropez has no blood money to spare...
...businesswoman. "But if we kick in our chips over Berlin, we might as well kick in the whole pot. The effort has to be made somewhere, risk or no risk, and it might as well be over Berlin." To show weakness in Berlin, said Miami Hotel Executive Carl H. Ransom Jr., is only "to give way to something that eventually will eat you up. You lose a little here and a little there, and you wake up and you're lost." Said Wilkie Hanson, a New Jersey businessman: "If we get out of one place we'll have...