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...rogue and pretend to be an aspiring writer at Harvard "a la Tom Wolfe." But he'll take out mostly domestics, get keys to the apartments of their employers, and then abscond with the jewels," Girard said...
Lady Bird's reaction was reasonable enough. But her aides seemed to be ready to treat the incident like the theft of an atomic secret. Anyone who would abscond with such a letter was obviously "untrustworthy," Liz told the press, and the whole affair might be a "security matter." Two Secret Service men were dispatched to Hamilton's office to extract the name of the letter seller...
Police cruisers guarded the city's Public Works garage all night Thursday as mechanics prepared the fire engine for its 1100-mile safari. Numerous phone calls warned the fire officials that the Lampoon was planning to abscond with the engine and, according to one official, threatened "to keep it longer than we kept the Codfish out of the State House...
...appeals to argue that the bonds should be reinstated, at least until Judge Ryan got through investigating the Civil Rights Congress. Appeals Judge Learned Hand, temporarily back from retirement, ruled that that was right. "An outrage!" shouted Irving Saypol. Retorted Judge Hand: "These men are not likely to abscond." Cried Saypol: "What -after eight have absconded!" Saypol lost this round, but this week he won the next. Judge Ryan upheld Saypol's contention that the Communists' bail was tainted. Unless they can get bail from another source, the Communists will have to await trial behind bars...
This overpowering suspicion is extremely questionable. It is just as reasonable to fear that the Dean will abscond with student funds, or violate any other official regulation. If the Dean had regarded the Student Council proposal as an infringement on her prerogatives, she certainly would never have accepted it in the first place. The fact that there has been a case where information regarding political affiliation was given out in the past has no present significance. There was no ruling then; there is one now, and the RAYD has no grounds for questioning the Dean's integrity...