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Last week police said, the mystery was solved, with the help of a telephone tipster. He suggested that police take another look in the storeroom at a seemingly innoucuous 4-ft.square wooden crate and a black footlocker. "You'll be surprised," the caller said. Police were indeed. When they broke into the crate, they discovered a mask and air tube for breathing, containers of fruit juice and water, a bottle for urine, pliers, bolt cutters, eleven smashed padlocks and $250,000 worth of loot, including rare coins, silver ingots and a case of 1934 French champagne. Inside the footlocker were...
...tipster-a bank employee who claims to have been asked by a friend to help plan the burglary-it might have worked. Last week, acting again on the informant's tip, police went to an apartment in Coral Gables and arrested a suspect: William McFarlan, 23, a 170-lb., 5-ft. 6-in. freshman law student at the University of Miami, who was charged with grand theft and burglary. Police are now searching for a missing coin collection worth...
...Administrative Board is forced to hold special "Double Sessions" and Saturday meetings when an anonymous tipster reveals that virtually the entire staff of the Harvard Independent--"Cambridge's only dinner table weekly"--have at one time or another served as KCIA agents. It is further alleged that many attempted to undermine the American governmental system by "packing" Gov 30 lectures and later taking James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, to lunch...
...William Coors argues that the tests help reveal "whether the applicant may be hiding some health problem" and ensure that "the applicant does not want the job for some subversive reason such as sabotaging our operation." There is some basis for the company's concern: last August a tipster directed police to a pipe bomb at a Coors recycling plant in a Denver suburb...
...Avenue, one of the few shopping areas left in the gutted slum, looters stole some $55,000 worth of goods from the huge R & M Furniture store. The next day its owner put out word that he would pay $25 for each TV set returned. Police learned from a tipster that a man had stashed swag in his basement. The cops entered without a search warrant and reclaimed about $2,000 worth of furniture. One of the invading cops admitted later with a laugh: "Now I can be arrested for a violation...