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First there was the Great Train Robbery. Now, Britain seems to have experienced a Great Plane Robbery. Last week Scotland Yard detectives were scurrying after leads in a daring heist of foreign currencies worth some $3.7 million-a robbery second in size, in Britain, only to the famed $7 million Royal Mail coach grab of 1963. The latest theft was carried out in broad daylight at Heathrow Airport, and it was acutely embarrassing to a U.S.-owned security and air-freight firm, Purolator Services Ltd., which frequently ships large quantities of currency...
...more illustration, even if it means forgetting the point. The topics covered in his book range from A (as in Abyssinian salt) to Z (as in Zeno of Elea). He discourses upon the rise and fall of cities since the Roman Empire, the possibilities for growing grapes in Scotland, the rules for transmitting property among the Tartars, and of course the "Revolt of our American Colonies." Smith writes: "The rulers of Great Britain have, for more than a century past, amused the people with the imagination that they possess a great empire on the west side of the Atlantic. This...
...patriotism, Dr. Witherspoon has proved himself an outstanding educator. During his eight years in Princeton, both college enrollment and endowment have steadily increased. In April 1769, the college was on the verge of bankruptcy, with total assets of only ?2,535. Knowing that his reputation as one of Scotland's leading theologians would make him welcome in Presbyterian congregations throughout the Colonies, the indefatigable Dr. Witherspoon began traversing the country to raise funds.* He preached in pulpits from Williamsburg to Boston, always stressing the needs of the college...
...quality of education offered by the college has also greatly improved. To the traditional curriculum of Latin, Greek, theology, mathematics and natural and moral philosophy, Witherspoon has added studies in history, geography and the French and English languages. Bringing several hundred books of his own from Scotland, he has increased the college library to some 2,000 volumes. He has also enlarged the college's stock of scientific apparatus, most notably by persuading the celebrated astronomer David Rittenhouse to sell the college his famous orrery for ?417. Ever since the orrery was installed in Nassau Hall in 1771, students...
Still, current readers of the Times were startled two weeks ago to find on the front page a report that the Academy of Applied Science/New York Times Loch Ness Expedition was ready to. depart for Drumnadrochit, Scotland, which would be headquarters for "the most thorough and technologically sophisticated" hunt ever conducted for whatever it is that lurks in the loch...