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...Friday night, as the weekend was beginning, the chief teller-standing in a cage behind a series of locked and guarded doors in the vault area two floors beneath ground level-had counted the money. It was resting on cart T-12, and the bundles of cash added up to $4 million. He wheeled the cart through another heavy door into the main vault. At the end of work on Tuesday, after the bank had reopened, the chief teller counted the money again. This time the tally was $3 million...
...bank officials could only assume it was an inside job. First, the thief had to get by several sets of guards (who log all comings and goings in the vault area) as well as TV monitors over the entrance. Then he presumably had to have one of the cart's four keys, to which supposedly only the chief teller, his supervisor and a few bank officers had access. The thief must evidently have been so familiar a figure in the bank that he was able to leave unnoticed with a haul that weighed a mere 20 lbs.-just right...
Ground services for the supersonic flight were strictly subsonic. Takeoff from Moscow was delayed 20 minutes after a motorized baggage cart broke down...
Charlie Thom, who was sitting in a golf cart next to Easterly, suddenly learned forward and with a clear County Angus brogue said, "that's r-r-right...
...found himself rereading them by mistake), shows cowboys-and-Indians flicks on a home projector at Stamford Saturday nights, and generally neglects television. He had to give up golf because of a bad back ("Played one hole last year and had to be carried off in a golf cart"), but still tinkers and putters, and he enjoys browsing in hardware stores. Says Sister Ruth: "His idea of a good time is coming to visit and cleaning my car, then straightening my house." He keeps his desk as uncluttered as his sister's car, and moves through the Times building...