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...Upper Egypt to Cairo seeking Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser's help in recovering his stolen life savings, was photographed at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers solemnly paying his respects to Egypt's husky (6 ft., 200 Ibs.) strongman, who ordered police to investigate the theft immediately...
Pocket Veto. In Billings, Mont., when charged with attempted theft, William F. Barraugh explained that he had forgotten to empty his pockets of the cheese, meat, sardines, avocado and bologna he had put there when he found the grocery store "too crowded to push a cart...
...Communist Party members "should not be employed as teachers." Resulting policy, at least in the minds of educational administrators, extends the traditional principle that academic freedom does not entitle a scholar to disregard the law of the state from its usual application to specific acts--such as murder or theft--to embrace a system of ideas, in so far as communism is such a system, and in so far as it advocates overthrow of the American government. While the moral issue does not disappear by making communism a sort of civil offense, it is relegated to far less importance. "Tattling...
...later on a stage when Blackstone the Magician lifted a silk cloth. A cry of dismay was heard in the balcony as thirty humorists, lured to the theater by free tickets, scrambled toward the steps to retrieve the bird. Backstage at the Colonial Theatre last Saturday, Blackstone recalled the theft and chuckled "We should do it again...
...freshman dormitories are located above the first floor and they have only narrow slits through which postmen must drop letters. The mailmen have not only been forced to climb an extra distance, but cannot deliver especially large letters, and must throw magazines on the floor, open to theft...