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...entrust their fates and those of their passengers to the doubtful security of an outboard dinghy and three flimsy life rafts? An island newspaper stoutly proclaimed that pirates had seized the passengers and scuttled the ship for the sake of a thousand pounds reputedly resting in the wallet of one of the passengers. But what pirate worth his salt would jettison a ship as fine as the Joyita? Other theorists argue that a waterspout struck Joyita and pointed to her damaged superstructure as evidence. But careful examination of the damage by qualified experts indicated that it was, in all likelihood...
...twenty throws from the hip and many others over the shoulder. The flips look deceptively easy. When one prospective student claimed the victims were helping, he was invited to remove his shoes and resist. In two seconds the instructor had the skeptic head down, feet up; the boy's wallet, comb, and socks were scattered over the ground. When he returned to earth he reassembled himself, mumbled, "It works," and left...
...Jack Kelly stops to pick up a hitchhiker (Vince Edwards) and the next moment is looking into the business end of a pistol. Following orders, he turns off on a side road where two other badmen join forces with the first. Disgusted by the emptiness of Kelly's wallet, the leader, John Cassavetes (who starred as a juvenile delinquent in ABC's memorable TV Crime in the Streets), wings a couple of shots past his head. The gang then attempts to sell Kelly's car, and failing to get the money that day, moves into his home...
...fair to require anyone to express his wishes about cremation in advance. Home Affairs Minister Louis J. M. Beel pleaded: "A codicil is a simple note ... 'I want my body to be burned,' date, signature, nothing more . . . One can carry it in his pocket or his wallet, one can put it in his desk. One can entrust it to his relatives or his cremation association . . . What's simpler than making a codicil...
...instant Ted comes boulevarding into view, through a window, the moviegoer has a sudden reflex to check his wallet. Hair plastered down, three days' growth of beard, sour-looking tropic-whites, smile like an overpolished apple and nasty little eye like a worm in it: Newton is the picture of a man who has made a gin fizzle of his life, and figures to cadge a chaser...