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...biggest cheating scandal to touch New York's Regents exams (named for the Board of Regents, the state's educational policymaking body) since they were introduced in 1878. The theft first came to official attention when a Brooklyn student reported that someone had tried to sell her the answers to some exams. Brooklyn District Attorney Eugene Gold's investigators soon discovered that "thousands" of hot answer keys were being marketed by student peddlers. Detectives eventually traced the purloined papers to Brooklyn's Solomon Schechter High School, where the seals on answers stored in the principal...
Roadside signs warning that "avocado rustlers will be prosecuted" amuse the fruit filchers. Neither a state law making the theft of more than $50 worth of avocados grand larceny nor a growers' reward of $750 for information leading to conviction of rustlers has deterred the thieves, who sometimes make off with whole 800-lb. bins of freshly picked green gold. San Diego County is now drawing up an ordinance that would require anyone transporting more than 40 Ibs. of avocados to have a bill of sale. But growers have little hope that the law will nip the avocado-nappers...
...been virtually no change in that most emotional issue in racial relations: the high level of black crime. In 1968 and again in 1972, blacks were arrested for 27.5% of all crimes. Some decline was registered in the rate of arrests for crimes against property-burglary, larceny, auto theft. But, distressingly, there was a slight rise in the arrest rate for aggravated assault, forcible rape and murder. Thus the ghettos continue to bear a disquieting resemblance to battlefields...
...fund set up by her wealthy, doting parents that yielded her thousands of dollars annually. Yet last week Bridget Rose Dugdale, 33-year-old daughter of a British insurance tycoon, was in jail-again. The blonde, Oxford-educated million-heiress was accused of masterminding and directing the largest art theft in recent history: last month's looting of 19 masterpieces, including paintings by Goya and Gainsborough, from the Irish manor home of Mining Heir Sir Alfred Beit.* The art works, valued at $20 million, were recovered intact two weeks ago in a remote cottage in County Cork...
...largest previous art robbery was the theft in December 1966 from London's Dulwich College Museum of eight paintings valued at $7 million...