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Since the 1962 theft, which occured despite the museum's watchmen, locked doors, and older display safes, Harvard has installed a radar detection system in the building and has kept much of the gem collection in a storage safe...
...newer offering lacks both originality in screenplay and inspiration in performance. One might think that Elusive Corporal evokes nothing and essentially tells nothing because it is an adaptation from a novel instead of an original Renoir creation. But the theft of ideas from other films is unforgivable and infuriating. Remember that hilarious scene in Stalag 17 when Harry and Animal paint a white line down the middle of the road to the Russian women's compound? Renoir turned his team of escapers into road measurers instead of painters. Escape from Colditz, A British film of the early fifties...
Sleigh Ride. But the Russian people had good reason to guess that a shortage lay ahead. Recently bread stores have rationed customers to two loaves per purchase, and Pravda last week launched a massive campaign against grain wastage and theft. The foreman of a mill in the Kaluga region south west of Moscow was ignominiously photographed with flour he had smuggled out in his pants. In the North Caucasus, peasants raising their own livestock on private plots were denounced for buying or stealing almost 100,000 lbs. of feed grain. Restaurant managers and waiters were threatened with stiff penalties...
...kidnaping-like the theft of touring Louvre treasures early this year -was one more brazen attempt by the F.A.L.N. to shame the pro-West government of President Rómulo Betancourt. In this it succeeded; it also succeeded in exposing the woefully inefficient and almost comic condition of the Caracas police force...
Despite such devices, few culprits are picked up by police. Many firms hesitate to report a theft, perhaps fearful that the thief they catch just may be one of their own. What's more, efficiency experts say that exposing employees to the strain of a perpetual manhunt is bad for morale. There is also the bad publicity to consider. Best advice, then, for the white-collar worker, as well as for his boss down the hall, is: Keep purses in locked drawers, wallets in pockets-and hang onto your hats...