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MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1981
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NEW YORK — The official
organization of repossessors —
known for taking cars, trucks and
othervehicles from insolvent driv
ers—is looking for something that
was taken from it — an advertising
blimp.
“We checked everything out,
searched everywhere and then
had to go to the police,” said Art
Christensen, a Newark, N.J., re
possessor who hosted last week’s
American Recovery Association’s
national convention.
The 4-foot by 6-foot balloon,
filled with helium and valued at
approximately $1,300, was last
seen Oct. 3 in the Grand Ballroom
of the New York Statler Hotel, he
said.
It is white with red, white and
blue fins, has a large ARA logo and
a banner saying “Repossession
Specialists.”
“It’s a little embarrassing, not
only for us but for the the Statler as
well, Christensen said. “After all
we re repossessors, and any of the
10,000 or so people from whom we
monthly repossess cars, trucks,
tractors, mobile homes, whatever,
must be having a laugh.
“It was taken from under our
noses, so to speak, so someone has
to know about it.”
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Shroud origin still a mystery
United Press International
NEW LONDON, Conn. —
The image of a flogged, crucified
body on the mysterious Shroud of
Turin is that of a man, but the
world may never know if it was the
burial cloth of Jesus Christ, an in
tensive scientific study has found.
A group of 45 scientists who
participated in the three-year
Shroud of Turin project and
gathered for a three-day sympo
sium to discuss the study, said Fri
day the “unique and remarkable”
image of a crucified man is not the
product of an artist or forgery.
But despite exhaustive tests,
the team of scientists has been un
able to disprove or prove conclu
sively the 14-foot long linen is the
first century burial cloth of Jesus.
The image on the shroud “has
uniqvie and remarkable three-
dimensional information encoded
in it, but the mechanism of the
image formation remains a mys
tery,” said Dr. Thomas D’Muhala,
a radiological engineer and one of
the original shroud investigators.
He said the study was con
ducted solely to determine the
physical makeup and chemistry of
the cloth and image.
The study concluded that "until
further chemical studies are made
the problem remains un
solved.”
But the scientists agreed the
shroud bears a clear, bodylength
image of a flogged, crucified man,
and has withstood exposure as a
forgery, despite intense scrutiny
under the most sophisticated sci
entific equipment.
The shroud, which first sur
faced in the 14th Century in
France, is only shown to the pub
lic a few times each century and
never leaves Italy.
The symposium will he fol
lowed by a 60-day free, public ex-;
hibition in nearby Groton of the
more than 200 photographs and
documents on the intensive tests
taken during a five-day period in,
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