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City Councillor Edward A. Sullivan yesterday demanded action on what he termed "the deplorable parking situation around Harvard." Meanwhile Acting Chief Patrick J. McCarthy last night ended rumors of an immediate police crackdown on overnight parking...
...Crackdown. When Ogden reported his findings, police and customs men moved fast. At Hong Kong, customs officers saw a Chinese sneak aboard a plane in the airport hangar and emerge carrying twelve fat envelopes. They grabbed him and recovered $142,000. At Philippine airfields, $171,000 more was confiscated. In Manila, an informer led Ogden to a man who offered to sell him 500 counterfeit money-order blanks at 25 pesos ($12.50) each, and obligingly showed him the printing plant where they were being turned out. Police nabbed the forgers...
...call upon state and federal authorities for a crackdown on narcotics peddlers...
House builders were the first to feel the crackdown. They had thought that for the time being, at least, there would be comparatively mild controls. But Stu Symington, the man chiefly responsible for gearing the U.S. for war production, thought differently. The only way to keep prices down and to free men and materials for the rearmament program, he said, was to clamp down harder & faster. After talking it over with FRB & housing officials last week, Symington won his point. The new restrictions...
There will be no immediate crackdown on student parking on the streets of Cambridge, acting Chief of Police Patrick J. McCarthy revealed last night. This decision will not be altered by the fact that the deadline for automobile registration within the University is less than eight hours away. The deadline is 5 p.m. today...