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Recently the police have been getting more and better tips than they ever got before. They are also finding arms dumped in open fields by comrades who want to get rid of them. The trend, the police guess, may just possibly stem from the party disaffection led by anti-Stalin Deviationists Valdo Magnani and Aldo Cucchi (TIME, Feb. 12). Mused a police officer: "Quite a few Communists seem to be having crises of conscience...
...Georgia, Herman Talmadge's boys are trying to ram restricted press laws through the legislature. The Georgia newspapers see Talmadge's action as an attempt to entrench his position by one of the simplest methods: getting rid of people who don't agree with...
...were too old for the work. In many cases, private companies charged one third what it had cost Boston. But the contractors soon won the advantage by gaining control of the available dumps. Competitive bidding became impossible because only one contractor in each district had any way to get rid of the refuse he collected. With the war, labor and equipment shortages entrenched the old companies even more. No new company could be sure enough of men and trucks to make an offer. Boston had to stop inviting bids, and started to negotiate contracts, which meant higher prices...
...Department open new ones. Boston has long planned incinerators as a post-war project of first importance, but for some reason nothing has been done. By constructing city owned disposal facilities, Boston could eliminate the persistent contract monopoly. Moreover, a large incinerator in central Boston would not only get rid of the costly Spectacle Island run, but could supply heat and power to the Boston City Hospital...
...hoped that research resulting from the bequest would rid him of his annual cold. He was curious, however, as to why his father, "who was always a healthy person," left his money "to this cold business...