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...Pentagon's massive study of U.S. involvement in Vietnam to Cambridge. After a "coming out" press conference at the Boston Federal Building (actually it was the occasion of his surrender to the U.S. Marshal), Daniel Ellsberg '52 enlisted two Harvard law professors to defend him on charges of theft and unauthorized possession of classified government documents...
Even a locked door may not be an effective safeguard against theft in Harvard housing. Since most locks have been used for several years, there's no way of knowing how many former residents have keys, and how many copies have been passed around. And some spring-backed locks can be easily "slipped" with a thin metal strip or a piece of flexible celluloid--a Coop-card, for instance...
...Treatment Administration reports this new math of addiction in a New England Journal of Medicine article. Like most major U.S. cities, Washington is experiencing an alarming heroin epidemic. The number of narcotic arrests in the city rose by 462% between 1967 and 1970; drug-related crimes, such as robbery, theft and prostitution, also increased dramatically. In 1967 a total of 21 Washingtonians were known to have succumbed to heroin overdoses, and using the ratio of 200 addicts per overdose, officials estimated the city's addict population then at 4,200. The figure for last year by that measure should...
...Truth in Lending Act. Unless the companies comply, the act prohibits them from pinching holders for as much as a penny on lost or stolen cards. Though many cards carry stern warnings that holders must pay for charges run up before the issuing company is notified of loss or theft, the warnings are legally meaningless...
...eight weeks, the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee has held hearings on organized crime. A parade of witnesses, many of them for- mer mobsters, testifying with immunity, have sketched the outlines of gambling, theft and corruption on which crime empires are built. Last week big Vinnie Teresa, a rotund (300 Ibs.) loan shark now serving concurrent prison terms for stealing securities and car theft, provided a Runyonesque retrospective of his life and crimes...