1.   Each anecdote got closer to the essence of Tom Atkins, but the real man eluded prepared reminiscences.

2.   Three years earlier the man had eluded the same warden when he was a rookie.

3.   How, for example, could the man have eluded police detection for nine years?

4.   The man eluded them at Bombay Airport just before Christmas after his Russian-built transport aircraft was forced to land there by Indian Air Force planes.