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...around homes of the well to do, creep up at night to saw off the bars and steal what they can. The U.N. is bringing 64 judges from abroad to build a judiciary system for the country. One of the first judges to arrive lost his briefcase to a thief on his first day in town...
...year during a bitter battle with rival Manila Capitalist Eugenio Lopez over the management of Philippine Air Lines, which Soriano organized in 1941. Attacked as a foreigner guilty of monopolistic profiteering, Soriano lost his temper during a Senate hearing on his management of P.A.L. and incautiously snapped out: "A thief thinks everyone else is a thief." The Senate committee issued a report imply ing that some of Soriano's other enter prises had been overcharging P.A.L. for their services - whereupon Soriano gave up operating the airline. But his with drawal has not kept...
Harvard will compete in the varsity division. The first event will be the "Happi Bagh" (elephant run), which is a sprint. Then comes the "Poni Cohn" (water thief), in which the elephants must carry a bucket of water in their trunks without getting the mahouts...
...water, electric lights or garbage collection. Fortnight ago in Bogota, rats attacked a nine-month-old baby girl left alone on a pallet and nibbled her to death. The police rarely intervene. Brazil's favelas breed a notorious outlaw called the malandro-an all-purpose con man, pimp, thief and murderer. Of 5,000 country girls who emigrate to Santiago's slums each month, 500 end up in brothels...
...accompanied by Alfredo Antonini and the CBS Orchestra, sings songs marking the observance of Passover. Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 6-7:30 p.m.). Kim Hunter, James Daly and Dennis King in a play based on the trial of Jesus before Pontius Pilate and the freeing of Barabbas, the thief. Repeat. Color. The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The dissolution of the French empire in Southeast Asia, brought on by the defeat of the French by Communist forces in Dienbienphu. Project 20 (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). The last days of Christ, leading up to the Crucifixion...