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...Young County jail in Graham, Texas, is remarkably unconfining. In the past two years 16 inmates have escaped. The record-at least for two-man escapes -is held by Jeffrey Lamb, 18, and David Bowman, 20, who were arrested last August on charges of burglary, attempted murder and car theft...
...moved away from the routine investigations of bank robbery and car theft that were popular under J. Edgar Hoover, it has plunged into the far more complex world of organized and white-collar crime and corrupt politicians. Evidence is much harder to obtain, cases that will stand up in court are much harder to build. So the agency has increasingly resorted to stings to produce the strongest possible proof of a crime. But police infiltration of the criminal world has always been a touchy area. Undercover agents often necessarily become parties to the commission of crime; so do paid informants...
...pretends to write like her old man, John, the sage of Ossining, but she alludes regularly and playfully to his imposing presence. When her heroine, Salley Gardens (nee Potter), gets married, one of the wedding guests is J.C. Salley's father, a Columbia University professor, commits an unacknowledged theft from a Cheever short story when commenting on his older brother: "What can you do with a man like that?" Even an apparently innocent comment by Salley carries, given the name of the author, some ironic freight: "Graceful prose was never my father's strong suit...
...sentenced to life imprisonment at a public rally of some 5,000 people. The problem, claimed the local Southern Daily, was that the nine teen-agers "lacked ideals and yearned for a bourgeois style of life. Starting by learning how to smoke and gamble, they passed on to theft and hooliganism and degenerated into criminals against the people...
...theft psychologically dampens everyone's spirit in the museum." Robert Mowry, curator of Oriental Art at the Fogg, said yesterday