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Most striking of all, perhaps, is the marked drop in the auto theft rate. Back in 1974, Cambridge bore the dubious distinction of having the highest car theft rate in the country. Insurance costs on cars ran so high that it was scarcely worth owning one; in fact, a popular trick was to hire someone to steal your car so that you could then collect the insurance rate...
...Next to kidnaping, auto theft is Italy's favorite pastime; according to the latest figures, last year thieves heisted an estimated 46,000 cars from the streets of Rome. This is a necessary enterprise, since the city is far too overcrowded with automobiles and their removal helps ease the acute shortage of parking places...
...predictable result of Israel's gradual shift away from the zealous Utopian socialism of its founders. No one, however, is ignoring the crimes and the accusations of crimes, which range from bribes of refrigerators and TV sets slipped to government workers to the outright theft of millions of dollars. Psychiatrist Hillel Klein argues that the shock of the scandals is particularly hard on a small nation like Israel, where public officials are so well known they are virtually members of the family...
...they are still living in this century, and the bourgeois world is still in control. Marie, whose innocent, wide-eyed smile has led one to believe she will never be brought under the rule of the establishment, is imprisoned for petty theft, and loses her child-like carelessness. Marco loses his job for teaching his unorthodox theories. And finally the pressures of the outside world break apart even the bonds between members of the group: Marguerite, the farmer, refuses to finance Mathieu's teaching efforts, and he is forced to return to a factory job he hates...
...will recall that the last we saw of Inspector Clouseau he had succeeded in 1) solving the jewel theft that was the central issue in The Return of the Pink Panther and 2) driving his immediate superior, Chief Inspector Dreyfus, completely, totally, padded-cell...