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Among nervous city officials at election time memories are short and faces long. The political play is to the grandstand and every gimmick scores points. This explains the sudden crackdown on Boston's emporia of hotcyed culture, the Old Howard and Casino burlesque (or burlesk, in the Casino's cas) house...
...Tudeh, as the affair at Ghala morghi air base proved, was still far from squelched. But in its crackdown, the new regime found it had more public backing than it had dared to hope for. In overthrowing Mossadegh and calling their Shah back from his brief exile, Iranians seemed to have given their own patriotism a bracing shot in the arm. "There is an old Iranian proverb: 'There's no room for two kings in a kingdom,' " one Iranian explained. "It was either the Shah or Tudeh. And the people chose the Shah...
University and Cambridge police yesterday announced a crackdown on illegal night parking. City Chief Patrick J. Ready said his Cambridge police will tag every car left on streets after...
...Joseph Laniel's first try at national economizing was a cut in the government's huge pension payments. Result: a chain explosion of crippling strikes that threw him into retreat. Last week Laniel tried a couple of other, less risky approaches-a fiat lowering prices and a crackdown on France's multitude of tax evaders...
...police have been conducting an intensive crackdown in recent weeks. McCarthy explained, "If they don't keep out of restricted streets now, we'll run into a lot of trouble...