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...makes a pinch; it is merely the information broker that helps the world's police to help one another. The catch sounds small (some 2,000 arrests last year), but the effect is large. Interpol's prey is the big-time international crook-the jet-borne jewel thief or heroin smuggler who cannot be caught unless police spin a global...
...injured Tuesday night when a police cruiser chasing a fleeing auto thief smashed into her small Triumph sports car at the intersection of Harvard and Dana Streets. The collision hurled her through the windshield and 20 feet down the road...
...Vittorio De Sica, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alain Resnais, François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard could pretty well shoot them as they saw them and let the censor take the hindmost. As a result, they made a number of fine far-out films (The Bicycle Thief, Wild Strawberries, 8½, L'Avventura, Hiroshima, Mon Amour, The 400 Blows, Breathless) that made a startling amount of money...
Hazards Aloft. When a helicopter broadcaster spots unusual activity below, he stops directing traffic and starts gathering news. Last spring Milwaukee's Burany heard a police report that a car had been stolen. He spotted the car below, tailed the thief after he had abandoned it, finally guided the police to him. "There just wasn't any place for him to hide," says Burany. Major Bruce Payne of Los Angeles' KGIL helped police pursue a herd of escaped horses that were galloping through suburban Burbank...
Markell chased the unarmed bandit down Mt. Auburn St. toward Boylston St. The thief lost his nerve, Markell said, dropped the loot on the steps of Holyoke Center, and fled...