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...Faculty enthusiasm over the Core, according to Bowersock, is that the program is "a prestige item--the place to be seen now is in the Core." Solbrig points especially to the Science courses as ones taught by some of Harvard's most renowned scholars--including Nobel Prize-winners Steven Weinberg, Higgins Professor of Physics, and Sheldon L. Glashow, professor of Physics...
...involved. Someone seems to have known exactly what was going on at the firm. There was an unusual stockpile of valuables at Trendline because a European buyer who had planned to look over some merchandise had been delayed. The thieves also took advantage of the fact that Owner Al Weinberg was on a business trip to South America and had closed Trendline on Friday night instead of Saturday. He did not discover the theft until his return at least 12 hours after the crime. Looking for leads, police questioned all 20 Trendline employees but got no useful information...
...gigantic haul was the second major loss Weinberg had experienced in just three days. On March 6 he set out to send to Canada three aluminum containers, each 6 ft. by 6 ft., that were filled with scraps of gold and silver. Two of the containers made it onto the plane. The third, filled with gold, did not, and police were still looking for leads in that case. At least Weinberg could take solace from the fact that the loss, estimated at $790,000, was fully covered with Lloyd's of London. Last week's far bigger haul...
...Informer Weinberg, however, held out a bigger prospect. He named two associates who, he claimed, had arranged shady deals with the mayor of Camden...
...Angelo Errichetti. The undercover agents now sought guidance from their superiors on whether to follow Weinberg's leads into the complex field of political corruption. Neil Welch, the FBI's top man in New York City, readily approved. He had long wanted to press harder against white-collar crime. But Welch also needed higher approval, first from Francis M. ("Bud") Mullen Jr., a Washington superior in charge of all FBI investigations into white-collar and organized crime. Finally, Director Webster's approval was needed...