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...part of the crackdown, police will begin towing away improperly parked cars, a move which has not been taken up to now, he said. The Department will also begin to send the names of student violators to University authorities for admonition, McCarthy added...
...severe crackdown on violations of motor scooter and bicycle traffic regulations will begin immediately, Sgt. John E. McCarthy, Safety Officer of the Cambridge Police Department, announced yesterday. The crusade is the result of repeated and flagrant disregard for Cambridge ordinances by riders around the University area, he declared...
...heaviest crackdown on phony TV advertising, the Federal Trade Commission last week gave new teeth to an old saw: things are rarely what they seem. The FTC filed complaints against four major national advertisers (Standard Brands, Colgate-Palmolive, Alcoa and Lever Bros.), three advertising agencies (Manhattan's Ted Bates & Co. and Foote, Cone & Belding, and Pittsburgh's Ketchum, MacLeod & Grove), and Foote, Cone's Vice President William H. Bambric. The charge: trickery designed to fool the TV viewer...
...onetime Deputy of the crackpot Poujadist right wing, one Robert Pesquet, 42, charged that he had faked the attempt on Mitterrand's life, and he had done it in connivance with Mitterrand himself. Leftist Mitterrand, said Pesquet, had conceived the scheme as a means of provoking a police crackdown on the rightists, had worked out the details in a series of three rendezvous with Pesquet. The only hitch, according to Pesquet, had come after Mitterrand had jumped the fence into the gardens; Pesquet and his driver had been obliged to hold their fire until a cruising taxicab...
...body in the justly-famed riot of 1834, a protest that has no equal in Harvard history. It started mildly enough--a few bonfires in the Yard livened by gun-powder-stuffed logs--then a dispute between the Latin professor and the freshmen and sophomores, and the inevitable Faculty crackdown. The College bell started to ring mysteriously during the night, and more broken windows appeared every...