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...selling the coat is a criminal dandy (Brian Bedford) of homosexual bent who tyrannizes over his two colleagues, a bizarre, dress-alike brother and sister known as The Heavenly Twins. Diabolic purists who love crime for crime's sake, the three want a fall guy to take the rap on a diamond heist. When the circumstantial evidence is finally planted on the waiter, he bursts into hysterical laughter and ardently proclaims his guilt, as if escaping years of nonentity in a moment of wicked splendor...
...fact, Frank Elli, now 41, had been in the pen on one rap or another eleven times since he was mustered out of the Navy 20 years ago. Apparently it occurred to him late that crime was not his true calling. Through a correspondence course offered by the University of Minnesota, Elli discovered that he had a greater talent for writing. The resulting novel, a tense, minute-by-minute account of a prison riot, shows that he has a born storyteller's way with a yarn...
...hardly likely that he will ever be executed. Nuevo León abhors capital punishment, has sent no one to the firing squad for 61 years. Moreover, Simmons' death sentence will be automatically cut to 25 years in 1970 because he will have survived a final death rap for five years. He has also been told that he will "probably" be freed if he petitions Nuevo León's governor for commutation. But Simmons is an obsessively stubborn man: he refuses to make any move that might be tantamount to admitting guilt...
...weeks ago, he even offered $1,000,000 to build public swimming pools in Negro areas if City Parks Commissioner Thomas Hoving would accept the café. "Irresponsible philanthropy!" roared Hoving. "Hartford is trying to manipulate potentially dangerous areas for his own end, but he has failed." With a rap like that, Hunt had to promise "a substantial sum" for the pools anyway. Meanwhile, he found another tin cup for his cash. Barely minutes before demolition was to begin, he anted up $100,000 to keep the wreckers away from the old Metropolitan Opera House for six months...
Share the Rap. So far, leading personal-injury lawyers doubt that individual engineers need be overly alarmed about the new legal risks, which are still mainly aimed at manufacturers. Manhattan Lawyer Harry H. Lipsig foresees suits against engineers in only two general situations: 1) where the manufacturer has gone out of business, or is financially weaker than the engineering firm; 2) where the plaintiff finds the engineer in a more convenient jurisdiction than the manufacturer, as when a U.S. engineer designs a machine that is then built abroad...