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...case soon began to look like one calling for the quirky talents of Simenon's Inspector Maigret. A month after the theft, Marcel Dassault, 84, unaccountably withdrew his formal complaint against De Vathaire. Dassault, who is famous for having developed his company's Mirage fighter planes, later appeared on French television with a somewhat unconvincing explanation of his action. He declared that "since there was no chance of recovering the money, and to please his parents, I dropped charges against my employee of 24 years' standing." Would he go so far as to rehire De Vathaire...
...carnival in Notting Hill has become something of an end-of-summer rite for thousands of Londoners who flock to the racially mixed area to hear West Indian steel bands and dance to calypsos through the narrow old streets. Last year, however, there were also some 800 complaints of theft, so Scotland Yard decided to send in 1,600 bobbies, five times as many as in 1975. To many revelers, the huge police presence, complete with helicopter chuffing overhead, was an irritation. But many police, too, seemed irritated at having to spend their holidays in crowd control, and they began...
...fantasies to improved air quality. Good ol' country living now suffers from that big-city disease known as a rising crime rate, according to the FBI'S annual Uniform Crime Reports released last week. In rural areas, serious crime-murder, rape, burglary, robbery, aggravated assault, larceny and theft-was up 8% in 1975. That increase was a percentage point higher than the crime rise in large cities (pop. over 250,000). Things were even worse in the suburbs, which racked up a 10% increase over 1974. There is still more crime in urban areas, but the rest...
...months after the disaster, crime rose 41% on the eastern shore, while downtown rates were falling. Car theft shot up almost 50% in the isolated community, and neighborhood quarrels and complaints rose 300%. With no hospital facilities on the eastern shore, weary general practitioners were inundated with increasingly testy and fearful patients...
Lipson also predicted that the self-paced format will not be resumed because the unit tests took two years of steady work to prepare. Paul G. Bamberg Jr. '63, lecturer on Physics and author of the tests, will be discouraged by the theft and will probably not make up a second set of tests, Lipson said...