Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once madamed a San Francisco "massage parlor." She was, at one time or another, involved in abortion, forgery, check-kiting and theft. She married something between eleven and 20 men, tried to con other men for make-believe pregnancies. But Elizabeth Duncan, 54, was on trial for murder in a Ventura, Calif, courthouse last week because she was a mother-with a vengeance (TIME...
...imperial times, mostly as forced labor, they remain an unabsorbed minority, and since World War II. a constant source of community friction. One in four is on relief, and 80% are classified as "without regular employment." Police assert that the incidence of crime-acts ranging from assault to theft-is five times as high among this group as among the rest of Japan's population. And owing in part at least to Rhee's insistence that the Koreans in Japan should stay in Japan, an estimated two-thirds of these expatriate Koreans are proCommunist...
Freewheeling. In London, Frederick Wilson went to a police station to report the theft of his bicycle, then stole a bobby's bicycle and rode home...
...Helena, Mont., when police picked up a 15-year-old boy for auto theft, the lad said: "I'm not a juvenile delinquent. I don't take hub caps and that kind of stuff. I just steal cars...
Without Taper. In London, Arnold Downham, 47, a clergyman's son, who was sentenced to nine years' preventive detention for stealing candlesticks, asked that the court take into consideration 82 previous offenses-all involving theft of candlesticks...