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Two years ago, President Conant awoke to find a steamroller on his lawn, kindness of M.I.T. Recently, the children of Lt. Col. Arthur Small, ROTC director, California Institute of Technology, discovered on the lawn of their Pasadena home a life-size, F-84 Thunderjet, minus its wings. The police and F.B.I. finally traced the gift back to ten California Tech students. The Techmen admitted stealing it from a campus exhibition.
One serious consequence of the affair was lessened when the whole college offered to help pay for the damage done to the plane.
Unfortunately, Col. Small had to tell his children they could not keep the jet.
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