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Lying in the vault were about 50 Ibs. of paper money from the Commerzbank of Frankfurt to the Chase Manhattan Bank. It was a treasure far bigger than the $2.78 million taken in the Brink's holdup of 1950, bigger even than the $4.3 million Purolator heist in 1974 in Chicago. The Lufthansa bandits' haul: about $5 million in American dollars, nearly $1 million in jewelry, as well as an undetermined amount of foreign currency...
...robbers, who had entered earlier, knew that the Lufthansa night crew was on a coffee break. They rounded up the employees in the lunchroom and handcuffed them. Then they joined the others, opened the door to the warehouse, drove the van inside and went straight to the high-security vault. With them they took the manager. One of the robbers held a gun to the manager's head, and, threatening to kill him, forced him to open the vault. With all employees handcuffed, the six men started throwing the boxes of money and jewelry into the van. Only one hour...
...there by a fluke. The money was scheduled to be transferred from Kennedy into Manhattan on the Friday before the heist, but when a Brink's truck arrived to take the money to Chase Manhattan, the Lufthansa foreman was too busy directing another shipment to open the vault. Some investigators think that there may have been a conspiracy to keep the money at the facility over the weekend...
...Pole Vault: 1--Stiles (H) 16 ft. 9 1/4 in. (New University record); 2--Bailery (H) 11 ft. 6 in.; 3--Burke...
Geoff Stiles shattered the Harvard pole vault record, the two-mile relay team defeated a world-class squad from the Greater Boston Track Club, and the tracksters crushed Boston College, 90-46, in a meet held Saturday...