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...classifieds, riddled with bait-and-switch ads for apartments that were just rented, sorry. There is the patient wait for the quarry, an exercise in stealth, timing and cunning. Finally-if the hunter is lucky-there is what appears to be the target: lg studio, din. area, dressrm, window, kit. D/W, so expo. Then comes the price for bagging what is really a one-room flat: perhaps $350, plus another $350 security, plus maybe another $350 to a rental agent for finding the place. No kids, dogs, cats, Venus's-flytraps or wild parties, please...
...advertisement also states that "satisfaction is unconditionally guaranteed," and the committee offers to send the kit to students at other schools for an additional charge of $1.50 to "cover parcel post and special handling" costs...
...offer also includes a "Special knowledge hammer" which is billed as "a tremendous novelty." "With only a few taps, one can become an Einstein or a Charlie Brown," according to the offer. The hammer is available for one dollar with a "survival kit," or two dollars when purchased separately...
Last spring, a number of students whose parents had ordered the "survival kit" told police they had never received the package. Smith said yesterday that because the police were notified so late in the school year, they did not have time to do much investigating before the students left for the summer...
...Smith said that this year a student whose mother had telephoned him to ask whether he wanted the "survival kit" remembered last year's incidents and called the police...