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...marked drop in the auto theft rate. Back in 1974, Cambridge bore the dubious distinction of having the highest car theft rate in the country. Insurance costs on cars ran so high that it was scarcely worth owning one; in fact, a popular trick was to hire someone to steal your car so that you could then collect the insurance rate...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: Substituting minibikes for hot cars | 3/3/1977 | See Source »

These Western designers, in Editor Mirabella's words, are, above all. "providing alternatives-slightly more flamboyant, seemingly uncommercial clothes." Seventh Avenue, she adds, will probably not steal their designs-and, in any case, cannot compete with their prices. Big Apple, make way for the Sexy Sunkist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Unbuckled Sunbelt Look | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

...wishful thinking, he sits down and writes a play. Softly Speaking, to be performed at Kirkland House March 3-5 with music by Gerald Moshell is the product of Tom Fuller's law firm summer. It's about a Victorian gentleman thief who goes to a country house to steal jewels and runs off with the daughter of the aristocrat who owns the estate instead. Although Softly Speaking stands apart as one of the few originals in a season of adaptations, at least in name, Fuller's play has a decidedly Gilbertian...

Author: By Shirley Chriane, | Title: STAGE | 2/9/1977 | See Source »

...commission did not find fault with the honor code in principle: "A cadet will not lie, cheat, steal or tolerate those who do." However, it urged some sharp modifications of the stern system. At present, it is all or nothing: if a cadet fibs about anything, however trivial, out he goes. But the system has broken down. The commission estimated that far more than the 152 juniors who were dismissed from West Point for cheating on an electrical engineering exam last spring were actually involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: A Barrage Hits West Point's Code | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

With five minutes left in the half, the score was still 34-18, but Hooft began to do his thing. A bank shot from the right side, a steal, a running righthander, and Harvard was back in the game. The half ended with a Harvard/Hooft surge that brought the Crimson to within seven...

Author: By Theodore A. Christopher, | Title: St. Thomas Sinks Freshman Cagers; Hooft Stampedes Court for 38 Points | 12/19/1976 | See Source »

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