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Police departments disagree on whether authorities should make promises they do not intend to keep. "If you have to resort to lying to get people out, you lie," says a San Francisco officer. An Indiana sheriff would go further, saying of one hostage taker in a recent incident: "I'd have given him title to Hawaii." John L. Carey, president of the Indiana Bar Association, sharply disagrees, maintaining: "The government shouldn't give its word and then go back...
Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston Pops, who handed the microphone over to Ozawa last week, declared that the freedom, peace, and music that made Tanglewood a favorite tourist resort area in the state (second only to Cape Cod) would be destroyed by the prison installment. "It's taken many years to build up a facility like Tanglewood," Fielder said. "To place a prison across the road from it would ruin the whole thing overnight...
Because of wartime labor shortages that prompted the Nazis to resort to slave labor battalions, they decided that homosexuals could be "rehabilitated" in a variety of ways, the most common method being surgical castration...
...Fire Island--a 32-mile stretch of sandy New York resort towns, whose main purpose is to keep the Atlantic Ocean off of the front lawns of all those nice mainlanders on nearby Long Island--my neighbors and I huddled together on the pleasantly rickety old ferry dock, waiting for the Coast Guard to make good on its early-morning evacuation order. Earlier, a few of my closer and more foolhardy friends had announced their plan to defy the local honchos and ride out the storm, and for a while I had entertained hopes of joining their struggle against...
...Novorossisk plant mainly supplies the sunny Black Sea resort area, but other plants are coming in the Crimea, Moscow, Leningrad and Tallinn. Pepsi is promoted as a health-giving tonic-an ideal way, as Novorossisk Plant Manager Andrei Oganov puts it, "to quench the thirst, invigorate the body and raise the tone." The chief problem the Russians have had with it is a low rate of bottle returns: despite a 120 deposit included in the 540 price, souvenir-minded Russians have been hanging on to two of every five bottles sold...