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...South America, live 18,000 nomadic Indians who roam a sandy waste (part Colombian territory, part Venezuelan) mounted on horses or old Ford trucks. Anthropologists' accounts of the Guajiro Indians read like tongue-in-cheek parodies of all sober treatises on Quaint Customs of the Aborigines. Item: a thief hurt while trespassing on the property of an intended victim can demand, and get, compensation from the property owner. Item: suicide is a means of vengeance; the person who kills himself believes that he will suffer less than those who goaded him into...
Credit Rating. In Houston, ten minutes after the Lindquist Finance Corp. was robbed of $447, Office Manager Howard Willson got a phone call from the thief who complained: "You didn't have enough money over there...
Clean Getaway. In Phoenix, after William Pilling told police that he got off fairly easily when a burglar stole only $6 and a Stetson hat, he discovered that the thief had also taken a bath, left a ring around...
Cash & Carry. In Windsor, Ontario, a subtle thief broke into Vacationer Arnold McCarthar's house, then called a furniture dealer, who obligingly drove up with a van, made an estimate, paid on the spot and carted all the furniture away...
Through it all, leaping, swimming, scaling walls and trailing broken hearts,"flashes "Desired of Damsels" Tony Curtis, born to the purple but kidnaped and reared as a thief. With the help of an impish girl thief (Piper Laurie), who can wriggle through the treasury's barred window, Tony outfoxes and outfights the usurper to win back his rightful place...