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...Phillip Wright, a 42-year-old cook who has worked five years for Harvard, said the police focused most heavily on him because he is Black and a cook, rather than questioning nearby Harvard students...
...Jack W. Morse, captain of the University Police, said yesterday that it was just "routine police work," and that although Wright did not commit the theft, a witness placed him at the scene of the theft...
...They only wanted Black cooks or Black people," Wright said about the Harvard police's investigation. "There were all these other people in the pinball room," he added...
...Wright said that in addition to hurting him personally, the incident defamed him in the eyes of his colleagues The police came up to question him in front of his co-workers, he said "Everyone knew what was happening," Wright said, adding that workers were jokingly asking him all day if they could borrow $15 in quarters...
...writings into coherent treatises. His engineering and hydraulic projects either failed or were not started. Very few of his machines would have worked either, and, of course, the famous ornithopters, helicopters and gliders that made him, in the eyes of an earlier generation, a sort of quattrocento Orville Wright never moved an inch into the air. Probably not even the crank-propelled tanks that he hoped would creep like lethal cone snails across the battlefields of northern Italy would have harmed anyone, even assuming that their sweating and straining occupants could have got their wheels to go round...