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...this Sunday police in 20 states and the District of Columbia will be baffled. For at 2 a.m. an hour of time will mysteriously disappear, and clocks should instantaneously read 3 a.m. In the past it has usually taken law enforcement officers about half a year to recover the theft...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Face Annual Mystery on Sunday | 4/28/1956 | See Source »

Struggle Meetings. Sure that publicity would have its terrorizing effect, Lo launched in October 1949 his successive purges. He called them "campaigns." The "Five-Anti" (sometimes called the "Five Vices") campaign was ostensibly waged against bribery, tax evasion, cheating in contracts, theft of state property and state economic secrets. Under its cover, businessmen and industrialists were pressured with endless "struggle meetings" (brainwashing) and forced to pay fines and "back taxes" of fantastic sums. Many were arrested, killed, or detained for days and nights by activists among their own employees. Literally hundreds of thousands committed suicide. At one time in Shanghai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: High Tide of Terror | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

...thanks to Tikoloshe, he escaped, and the blood-hunters moved on. During the months that followed, 14 more natives fell victim to their knives, clubs and axes until one day Tikoloshe announced: "You have rendered good service; now we will wash in the river and part." Arrested for petty theft, Msomi was spotted as the man wanted for 15 of South Africa's most gruesome murders. He readily admitted the crimes and even helped the police to find the skull of one of his victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tilcoloshe's Friend | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

Unfinished Business. In St. Paul, Dave Williams and Willard Brazil were rearrested when, cleared of auto-theft charges, they walked out of the city police station, stole a taxicab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 20, 1956 | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...statement follows the general University policy of discouraging theft by eliminating the temptation for such pilfering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unwatched Wallets Stolen From Coats | 2/11/1956 | See Source »

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