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...years, two copies of the Constitution lay forgotten in a Boston bank vault. The documents -- one with doodles and scribbled notes by Nicholas Gilman, a New Hampshire delegate to the Constitutional Convention -- were discovered four years ago. Their existence was made public last week after scholars authenticated them. They are expected to shed new light on the deliberations of 1787 since less than half of the original 60 draft copies are still around...
Gilman was hardly a famous Founding Father, but he left behind a treasure trove. His clapboard home in Exeter, N.H., is now a museum, and its executive director, Richard Tobin, learned of the vault in a note that turned up in the house. "We've been finding things all over," he says, "under the beds, in closets, everywhere." So far, the booty includes a drawing by Paul Revere of the Boston Massacre, papers signed by Louis XVI and Lafayette, and a ring with a lock of George Washington's hair...
...mole. Philby removed all doubt when he defected to the Soviets in 1963. "After the Philby case," says an Angleton friend, "Jim was never the same." But the full scope of Angleton's obsessive mole hunt was not apparent until his dismissal. Agents sent to clear out his secret vault at the CIA's Langley, Va., headquarters discovered hundreds of files from his Ahab-like search for Soviet counteragents within the ranks of the CIA. Investigators were baffled to find scores of unexplored leads and astounding revelations of Angleton's misdeeds and malfeasance. Among them...
...afternoon then assumed a decidedly Ivy League tone as Yale's Rick Wemple set a new Heps record in the 1500 while Princeton's Kevin McGuire did the same in the pole vault...
...Pole vault: 1. Hans Pompen (Boston University), 14'6", 2. Friend (BU) and Robison...