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...virtually unimpeded by the police. In more than 30 years as a fence, Swaggi, 60, has spent only eight months in jail. His secret: camouflage illegitimate activities with a legitimate business and challenge the police and courts to prove he is knowingly dealing in stolen goods. For example, a thief sells him some suits. "How you [the rightful owner] gonna know they're yours?" asks Swaggi. "I got Botanys, you got Bota-nys, every store in town's got Botanys." Also crucial is selling quickly. "Chances are I got it sold before the guy who owns it knows...
...World War II and its devastating effects on Italy moved De Sica to focus his attention on the plight of the poor. He often found his actors among street people, told unadorned tales of poverty and pain, and by 1965 had won three Academy Awards: for Shoeshine, The Bicycle Thief and Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. A compulsive gambler who lost some $6 million in Europe's casinos, De Sica occasionally lapsed into more commercial ventures (Marriage-Italian Style), but in 1972 he returned to form with another Academy Award winner, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis...
Spokesmen for both the Harvard and Cambridge police said last night that they have no clues as to the identity of the thief or thieves, and no idea of the exact date of the theft...
...suspicious-looking bike comes in for repair or resale, the hotline will provide the shop owner with the proof necessary to nab the thief, and if the owner has his bill of sale, the bike will be returned," he said...
...greenroom without getting goosed or mugged. Today, says A Little Night Music's Hermione Gingold, "There are far less evil-looking people around." Two days later, an uptown precinct tried to persuade the visiting Moiseyev troupe of folk dancers that Central Park was safe. Not a bicycle thief was in sight when Patrolman Murray Trelford and eight of his colleagues challenged the 30 Russians to a Frisbee game on the Great Lawn. Then they all linked arms in a Russian folk dance. While a balalaika was strummed, Igor Moiseyev said, "Now we know the police are men with human...