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Looking down from a hotel window, a companion of Alinda's saw a man get out of a red Plymouth and open the trunk of Alinda's Toyota, but the thief had disappeared with a box containing the two-foot-high sculpture and a typewriter before Alinda reached...
...Rififi; yet no motive has been discerned. A local newspaper received demands for $50,000 in ransom, but they apparently came from cranks. By last week, although Montreal police still had two detectives on the case, the oratory's priests had given up hope. Whatever the motive, the thief may have been doing Brother André a favor. Enshrined in the templed glories of package-tour religion, the humble lay brother's heart was painfully out of place...
...April 2] in its attempt to overthrow the election of Chile's Allende leaves this writer unimpressed. The expropriation of ITT property without adequate compensation is thievery pure and simple, no different in spirit and effect than the act of a larcenist, embezzler or any other thief...
Tonis said that because the students decided not to file a complaint against the suspect with the Cambridge police, the University police could not detain the alleged thief. He added that if the students had filed a complaint, they could have been sued for false arrest...
Charles L. Coulson, manager of the Faculty Club, said that the vault was left unlocked by an inexperienced clerk. Although the Club is closed during the weekend, employees and guests go in and out of the premises. Coulson said that the possibility of a thief or vandal entering the premises was very high...