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...organ pipes stolen during the week from the Phillips Brooks House Organ and the small practice organ in Memorial Church have been recovered. Yesterday morning Cambridge police thwarted a third attempt at pipe-swiping, but only after the burglar had already completed a pair of either daring or native broad-daylight robberies...
...BURGLARY: The traditional element of "breaking" is discarded from the definition. It is clearly burglary, under the proposed revision, even if a burglar enters through an open door...
...Glitter. Guarded by bank-vault-type doors, electric-eye burglar alarms and "footmen" whose blue-and-silver waistcoats bulge with shoulder-holster Lugers, the new Schatzkam-mer operates with little fanfare. "Too much publicity," explains Director Hans Thoma, "might only attract some fool Rififi who might take a crack at the wealth. The public should come gradually, not because they are intrigued by the glitter, but because of the artistic pleasure it gives to see so much precious beauty assembled...
...long been an a.m. book worm, and now he has caught an early bird. While doing some crack-of-dawn reading in his St. Tropez villa, he heard a noise in his sleeping wife's adjacent bedroom, opened the door and bumped smack into a young burglar. "What are you doing here?" roared the conductor, appassionato. For answer, he got a fortissimo downbeat right in the kisser...
State ownership of industry-which Winston Churchill called that "burglar's jemmy to crack the capitalist crib" -is the goal most commonly associated with a Socialist administration. Tory scaremongers even claim that Labor already has a "shopping list" of 104 companies it plans to nationalize. However, after bitter argument the Labor Party has abandoned its longtime commitment to public ownership of the economy's "commanding heights." It plans now only to renationalize steel, which was partially restored to private enterprise by the Tories, and Britain's trucking industry...