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Three men were found guilty last night of stealing $5 million worth of rare coins from Harvard's Fogg Art Museum in what is believed to be the largest art theft in U.S. history...
...prison psychiatrist pronounced him "intelligent, very rational and without any indication of mental illness." The Texas-born Gilmore was first sent to a reformatory at 14 after breaking a school window. He has been behind bars during 18 of the 21 years since then for, among other things, auto theft, armed robbery and assault. Paroled last April, Gilmore was settling into a job in Provo and living with his Mormon uncle, Vern Damico; then, says Damico, "he met a girl this summer who was a hard type...
...where Brown-Beasley's banana converter comes in. Since the August 4th firing Harvard's defense has leaned partially on a disturbingly vague clause in the personnel manual that reads, "Discharge without prior warnings or suspension may be justified for very serious offenses, for example, serious dishonesty, including theft of University property." (Harvard's arguments also rest on the University's contention that Brown-Beasley, who admits he is eccentric and hard to get along with, has a record of difficulties in jobs he has held at Harvard since 1969. But Brown-Beasley's University personnel file contains no evidence...
Crime at Harvard decreased significantly from last year during the 14 weeks between July 1 and October 9, the latest period for which data is available. There were large drops in the amount of assaults, vandalism, breaking and entering, and bicycle and auto theft...
According to Sayre, Watson took Franklin's experimental results and then in 1968, several years after Franklin's death, wrote "The Double Helix" which called upon "every known prejudice against intellectual women" to degrade Franklin and justify the theft...