Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Space will not permit a challenge to the statement of Cambridge Police Chief Patrick J. Ready that Cambridge "is no hayfield," but I would like to take issue with the validity of the assumptions upon which the overnight parking ban issued by Cambridge and the University is based...
...authorities' second assumption for issuing their ban is that overnight parking is detrimental to the efforts of their street cleaning crew. Last summer I had the good fortune to live in the District of Columbia. There, overnight parking on the streets is perfectly legal and yet the street cleaning operation is well executed. There is only a slight bit of residue next to one's tires the next morning. This is my third year in Cambridge and I have yet to witness the streets receiving more than a token cleaning...
Also, certain standards of conduct are formally required. Enforced mostly by public opinion, such rules as a car ban for underclassmen, parietal rules for fraternitay houses and dormitories, and the wearing of jacket and tie for Sunday dinner in the Student Union are the responsibility of the newly-appointed "campus protor...
This quick journey from somewhere to inconsistency left Army-Navy relations about the same as ever. Anonymous Navy spokesmen, chuckling deeply, thought that the Army couldn't possibly ban the movie from its screens because it had spent a lot of the taxpayers' money helping to produce scenes at Hawaii's Schofield Barracks. Anonymous Army spokesmen, with a knowing air, thought that the Navy (which has joined the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency in banning The Moon Is Blue) might be making a record for the future. Coming soon: The Caine Mutiny, a movie about sex, misery...
Some 50,000 German fans seemed as enthusiastic as ever about the flyers whom the father of modern gliding, Germany's Otto Lilienthal, used to call "the birds' apprentices." Since the lifting of the allied ban, 840 gliding clubs have sprung up in Germany. Average age of the Orlinghausen meet's 25 pilots...