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Conspicuous by their absence were the dogs employed last year by Metropolitan District Commission policemen to break up a riot of 1000 students on Memorial Drive. Only two MDC squad cars arrived while students blocked traffic, but one MDC policemen was overheard to say "in twenty minutes, the dogs will be here and eat a few of them [the demonstrators...
Harvard learned about the marijuana activity through a complicated chain of communication. A freshman who had smoked marijuana was overheard by his when he discussed it with a friend during spring vacation. The irate parent contacted the president of the local Harvard Club, who in turn called a member of the administration here to alert him the situation...
...about Charlie Brown's losing a game 40 to nothing, but I distinctly remember a day when our team was beaten 40 to nothing." Sparky was afraid to talk to girls and did not have his first date until two years after graduating from high school. Once he overheard a friend of his mother's remark: "He's such a nice boy, isn't he?" Thought Sparky: "Oh boy, is that all I'll be all my life...
...Overheard two fellows talking at breakfast this morning...
Perhaps the difference is best summed up in a dialogue overheard between two 30-year veteran Boston political reporters: "You know, I've never really seen anything like that guy. He lives on nickle candy bars...