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...profession, Salih was a thief, by avocation, Salih was a Romeo. Last week his skilled shuttling between both talents was the talk of U.S. oilworkers in the Aramco base at Dhahran...
...night recently in the nearby port of Khobar, Salih met his latest Juliet at her home, secure in the belief that Juliet's husband was out of town. Suddenly they heard the husband's approaching footsteps. The wife had the presence of mind to scream, "Thief! Thief!" and Salih, catching on, pretended that he was trying to escape. Salih was captured and arraigned for judgment before the local ruler, Emir Saud ibn Jiluwi, who decreed the traditional Arabian punishment for a habitual thief: public amputation of his right hand. Salih calmly accepted the verdict and did not even...
...speech. Talking about inflation, Perón shrilly told the Argentines they were "18 million dunces" for "permitting themselves to be robbed" by black-marketeers. As for corruption: "It is usual for people to judge all public officials as thieves. But you can't call a man a thief unless you can prove it, and I'm forced to believe all men honest until I can prove the contrary. But I assure you that once I prove it, that man shall go to jail, even if he were my own father." Some sensational circumstantial evidence of corruption came...
...National Board of Review picked a mixed bouquet: The Quiet Man (No. 12 on Variety'?, list of top grossers), High Noon, Limelight, Five Fingers (No. 86), The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Thief (No. 114), The Bad and the Beautiful, Singin' in the Rain, Above and Beyond, My Son John (a poor grosser, unlisted...
Cambridge police officially closed the case of Liberal Union film proceeds thefts yesterday after the H.L.U. refused to press charges against the thief...