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Overhaul. In Long Beach, Calif., Jerome Colwell complained to police that a thief had stripped accessories from his car, which had been parked in one spot for two months while he was in jail for car stripping...
...Imperialist beast. Bandit, hypocrite, thief!" screamed the radios in Fidel Castro's Cuba, denouncing the U.S. "The U.S. wants to prepare public opinion for military action," raved Revolution, Castro's mouthpiece paper, "the same technique as the Alamo in 1836, the Maine in 1898, the Lusitania in 1915." Said Cuba's Prime Minister himself: "Those who committed this sabotage are those who were interested in our not getting these arms-officials of the United States Government...
...Sore. In Detroit, Private Detective ames Kimble, 37, complained that a thief had broken into his car and stolen his kit containing a magnifying glass, fingerprinting tools, his diploma and badge...
...gang that stole $1,000,000 in furs and jewelry from Gold Coast apartments. The robbers said that they operated with impunity-before the FBI caught them and got them sent to Joliet-by paying $20,000 a year to detectives on the city burglary squad. One dapper thief, spotted by a victim, was arrested and put through police lineup, but escaped identification because a friendly ($1,000) Chicago cop disguised him in a new hairdo and horn-rimmed glasses...
...pocketing cash, jiggering books, stealing merchandise, and a score of other similar practices, employees this year will steal more than $1 billion-more than twice the amount stolen by all the nation's professional thieves. This is the estimate of Norman Jaspan in The Thief in the White Collar (Lippincott; $4.95), an analysis of corporate stealing. Jaspan, 43, who is president of his own management consulting firm, speaks from experience. His clients include 35% of all major retail outlets in the U.S., plus many airlines and manufacturing firms. In the past ten years, while working to improve operating efficiency...