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...theft was discovered after the performance when the six girls, who were the victims, began looking for their belongings. The room was unlocked during the entire performance, but some members of the cast were in it most of the evening. The last half of act two, however, requires everyone's presence on stage...
...More Enemy. The attack began quietly enough as a campaign against waste in the lower levels of Communist bureaucracy. But gradually it burgeoned into "The Five Anti Campaign"-against bribery, tax evasion, cheating in contracts, stealing of state property and "theft of state economic secrets." The fire of the party was shifted from Red bureaucrats to private businessmen...
Roughage. In Tokyo, after several sticks of dynamite disappeared from a munitions depot, cops combed the city for suspected terrorists, finally caught a rosy-cheeked lad who confessed to the theft and explained: "I ate them...
...large Universities, Temple and Minnesota recently revealed serious outbreaks of cheating. 71 percent of a test group of students at Temple have admitted obtaining examination questions in advance, and four members of the Phi Delta Chi professional pharmacy fraternity at Minnesota were indefinitely suspended in connection with the theft of test answers for the mid-quarter examination...
...Light Touch (MGM) opens with a deft lesson in the art of stealing an old master's painting from a crowded Italian museum. A self-contained little thriller, from the planning to the getaway, this sequence is plotted and timed as neatly as the theft itself. It also pegs the film's picaresque hero without a wasted motion. Stewart Granger is the Raffles of art-clever, nonchalant, cynically aware that the painting is on loan from a church altar, so thoroughgoing a rascal that he not only carries on an affair with his henchman's wife...