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Moths won't mate without oak leaves...
...gang members were vocationally talented; they drilled 48 holes to remove a panel in a stout oak door of the Dulwich College museum without tripping an alarm attached to the frame. Their taste in art was impeccable; they snatched eight old masters worth some $7,000,000, including three Rembrandts (among them the widely admired A Girl at a Window). What they had not figured out was who would pay them for their night's work. The college was heavily in debt, and in no position to afford a ransom. None of the works were insured, a fact that...
Surprisingly, the nudge for the new fares came from the U.S. nonscheduled airlines. As of last week nine of the biggest, led by World Airways of Oak land, Calif., have CAB permission to charter planes for all-expense, "inclusive tours" outside the U.S. They will be set up by travel agents and sold to all comers at a package price that could be cheaper than the Pan Am plan...
...Just as we would forgive the earthworm for not knowing that the roots, trunk and leaves of the oak tree are really one entity, so must we forgive Bishop Pike if he cannot see that Father, Son and Holy Spirit are really one. Please, no trial. The bishop is neither heretic nor prophet-simply out of his depth...
Jersey No. 42. At the Shrine of the Little Flower High School in Royal Oak, Mich., about five miles north of Detroit, Football Coach Al Fracassa announced last week that he was retiring No. 42, the blue and gold jersey worn by "the greatest athlete I've seen in ten years of coaching." No. 42 had been Jim Seymour, a gangling "big little boy" who was Shrine's version of Frank Merriwell. Son of a permissive, well-to-do oil-company executive, Jim had a more than ordinarily comfortable childhood: big, luxurious house, backyard swimming pool, a guitar...