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...playwright. The subject is Andrew Marvell. "Read 'The Garden' again," he says to the tutee who scampers off in the direction of Leverett Towers. He walks into his house, patting the dog in the process. "Bye, Sparky," he says closing the door (which, incidentally, he rescued from an old Beacon Hill mansion because it was such a "lovely door"), then winks with his gaminlike eyes and says, "Watch him start barking again." He does, Mrs. Murphy, the housekeeper, is in a tizzy. There's the matter of his schedule book and then she is so pleased that he has given...
...firm, and violators of good-conduct rules are banished-sometimes forever. Probably 98% of the customers are on a first-name basis with each other. And the small-town news at the Pump is far fresher and at least as accurate as that published weekly in the Anchor Bay Beacon. When the price of beer recently advanced from 15? to 20?, scarcely a murmur was heard. After all, that's a small price to pay for such amenities. Dear wife, I'll be home late tonight...
...Angeles County deputy sheriffs last week went up in the air to fight crime on the ground. Cruising 20 hours a day in helicopters above the city of Lakewood (pop. 67,000), near Long Beach, the officers kept a particular watch for an ingenious new type of alarm beacon mounted atop homes and stores. The 1,000-watt beacons, visible five miles in daylight and twelve at night, light up either manually or automatically to signal break-ins or holdups. Within 21 minutes at most, the sheriff's men expect to swoop down on the scene, spot suspects with...
...playwright. The subject is Andrew Marvell. "Read 'The Garden' again," he says to the tutee who scampers off in the direction of Leverett Towers. He walks into his house, patting the dog in the process. "Bye, Sparky," he says closing the door (which, incidentally, he rescued from an old Beacon Hill mansion because it was such a "lovely door"), then winks with his gaminlike eyes and says, "Watch him start barking again." He does. Mrs. Murphy, the housekeeper, is in a tizzy. There's the matter of his schedule book and then she is so pleased that he has given...
...Beacon company had said in February that construction would probably begin by the end of the year. Yesterday, Robert Beal '63 of the company, said this was still a possibility if the zoning problem was resolved. He added, however, that the company has directed most of its attention to other projects...