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...Easter Monday, more than a dozen men carrying shotguns and pistols climbed the 12-ft. wall of a Security Express compound in East London, eventually making off with about $10.5 million in bank notes. A month later, a lone cat burglar stole into Waddesdon Manor, a National Trust estate in Buckinghamshire, and carried away about $1.5 million worth of antiques, jewel-encrusted gold snuff boxes, figurines and rings from the famous Rothschild collection. In South London, a burglar climbed to the roof of Dulwich College, smashed a skylight, descended into the art gallery and used a crowbar to wrench from...
Most long-time staff agree that recent improvements in Novelle Manor have been phenomenal. "There's been a great change both psychologically and physically in the home," said Sheila Rafferty, a social worker who has worked at Neville Manor for two years...
...enthusiasm of the staff for what they call the "new Neville Manor" is evident in the appearance of the building itself. The walls are painted cheerful greens and yellows, and plants and St. Patrick's Day decorations hang from ceilings, posters and even lampshades. "If families don't bring in stimulating decorations for the patients' rooms." said Rafferty, smiling, "we just make them ourselves...
...third floor, recreation activites are constantly underway. Only 20 hours of available recreation are required by state regulations, but the staff at Neville Manor keep activities going for 41 hours each week. Patients can spend their time doing arts and crafts or discussing current events, watching films or playing bingo. Friday morning at 10 a.m. is bowling hour, and the assistant recreation director pushes patients in wheelchairs up to the miniature alley to loss the ball...
...still and like home," says Margaret O'Brien, a telephone operator in Harvard Square for 39 years who moved into Neville Manor in September, "but they've all been very good...