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...prosecution witness in last year's Fogg coin theft trial last week filed suit against Harvard in Middlesex Superior Court for negligence in supervising University employees who allegedly crippled him in a beating...
Studies by Everett Lee, in charge of the investment program at Boston's New England Rare Coin Galleries, show that over the past ten years the average rare coin has appreciated 43.7% a year-far more than the stock averages. Antique dealers find that an increasing number of clients are buying furniture not only for artistic reasons but also as an investment. As a result of heightened demand, the price of good English furniture in some parts of the country has increased about 25% a year during the past four years. Dick Kritsky, a California grocery-store manager...
Packed in a large metal container and invoiced as metaux ouvres (worked metal), the coin shipment was met at Paris' Gare de Bercy by Jean Trottin, 51, a driver for a truck-rental agency. He loaded the container onto a flatbed tractor-trailer truck for delivery to a Bank of France side entrance. Shortly after leaving the station, Trottin found himself cut off by a disabled truck and got out to give a hand. Minutes later the two were surrounded by four pistol-carrying men and ordered into a nearby Peugeot sedan. One gunman took the wheel of Trottin...
National Passions. The heist was so professional that police suspect the thieves have ties to organized crime and may have little trouble fencing their take -although not at face value. Casinos, race tracks and other businesses that deal in large volumes of change should be able to absorb the coins (provided police informers don't spot them). Moreover, several national passions-ranging from tippling to the weekly tierce horse race-force cafes to keep large amounts of coins on hand. Last year two crooks who had stolen $80,000 in one-franc coins tried to convince police that...
...divisions. The company's enormous long-term debt of $1.1 billion must be serviced, at high cost. A sizable investment portfolio that includes stakes in such companies as Simmons (mattresses), Wurlitzer (juke boxes), Amfac (sugar, hotels, processed food), Esquire (magazines) and a Japanese maker of coin-operated machines has added little to G & W's fortunes...