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Cambridge police yesterday began on intensified campaign to rid the streets of overnight parkers. The blow fell mainly on students with more than 60 tickets distributed on lower Plympton and Mill Streets...
Furthermore, claimed the opponents, if the honor system did indeed prove to be unworkable, it would be devilishly hard to get rid of, since College officials would be extremely unwilling to admit that Dartmouth men lacked sufficient honor to keep the system operating...
What would McGranery do about corruption in Government? "Clean it out and get rid of it . . . Weed out and fire any incompetent, disloyal or dishonest employee . . . Easy as pie." With McCarran's help, he brushed off, as mere feuding, some caustic testimony leveled at him by his Philadelphia enemy and fellow Democrat District Attorney Richardson Dilworth. (Said Dilworth of McGranery: "He would be most political . . . Anything would go for his political friends, anything to garrote his political enemies...
...lead yarn), for instance, the captain of a Process Corps takes us by the hand and shows how awful the Earth's historical development has been, how ridiculously evangelistic we Earthlings really are, and what is in store for us in a few millenia if we do not get rid of all these thinking machines that have been developed. It seems that the inhabitants of a planet, Rerma by name, will be destroyed if they do not bring all the inhabitants of the Galaxy up to their cultural and economic and social standards. To save themselves, they must find some...
...Lamont waves the white flag, it will be another victory for the Commuters in the long-range struggle to rid themselves of a second-class student standing. Their demands are fair; the ratio of books they propose to take out is in ratio with their number. Since resident students have informally approved the Commuters' demands, the last obstruction, short of Lamont officialdom, has been razed...