Word: robert
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...ROBERT J. TULP Brooklyn
...Never Thought." It was the first child kidnaping for ransom in Australia's history, and it raised a big fuss. "Some how we have never thought that it could occur in this country." said New South Wales's Premier Robert Heffron sadly. Whenever the Thornes left their home, carloads of reporters and cameramen tagged along. The family pastor. Anglican Minister Clive Goodwin, who had offered to serve as go-between with the kidnapers, withdrew after two days, explaining that so much publicity made his intermediary's role "no longer possible...
...boss of Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Robert E. Gross, 63, was faced with an unexpected - and huge - financial problem...
Captain Cat, by Robert Holies. The social rise and moral downfall of a precociously cynical 15-year-old in the British army, told in rich, authentic Teddy talk...
Plus four remarkably fine first novels: The Bridge, by Manfred Gregor, a brisk, bitter account of Nazi teen-age conscripts thrown into the suicidal campaigns of 1945; Now and at the Hour, by Robert Cormier, the touching story of how death brings dignity to an obscure factory worker; To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, an uncommonly well-written tale about the irregular but effective education of the most appealing little Southern girl since Carson McCullers' Frankie; and The Paratrooper of Mechanic Avenue, by Lester Goran, more growing pains but this time those of a less savory hero...