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...masks and gloves, climbed onto the roof of the two-story Sentry building. Using metal-cutting tools, they sawed a 2-ft. hole in the roof and lowered themselves down a rope. Armed with a double-barrel shotgun, they gagged and handcuffed the only guard on duty. A crowbar was used to break the locks off the metal door to the basement "money room." There, some $30 million in cash and food stamps sat in bags behind a floor-to-ceiling chain-link fence. The robbers clipped through the fence, took ten to twelve bags packed with untraceable...
...Edmund Goodhue '68, an alumnus interested in art who talked with Slive about the offer, said yesterday, "I think Slive was correct in not getting Harvard involved." Goodhue said the offer to Harvard may have been used as a "political crowbar" in the negotiations with New York, where the sculpture has met community resistance...
Vice President Mondale tells us that Reagan "will fall like a crowbar ... awfully fast." Everyone knows that in a vacuum a peanut can fall equally fast...
...economic policy is nonsense. Our surveys show that by 2 to 1, the American people think that it's nonsense, that it's inflationary, that it cannot work, and that's one of the reasons that I think he's going to fall like a crowbar...
...Just how does a crowbar fall...