Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Police Sergeant John McMahon spoted smoke issuing from a window at about 11:15 p.m. His alarm brought two hook-and-ladder units and three engine companies. Firemen entered through the Club entrance on Bow St. and fought the blaze from the interior...
...London magistrate called up two defendants in Bow Street police court one day last week. The first was Private Anthony Walter Plant, 19, of the 2nd Battalion of the Coldstream Guards. The second was Ian Douglas Harvey. Conservative Member of Parliament for Harrow East and Joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign Office, the third top Foreign Office post. Both were charged with "committing an act of gross indecency with another male person" in St. James Park, next to the government offices in Whitehall. Additionally, they were accused of "behaving in a manner reasonably likely to offend against...
Administrative sluggishness is a common phenomenon and is most evident in various small matters, such as the placing of stop signs. Disregarding numerous requests, the City of Cambridge has left the intersections of Bow and Plympton Streets, and of Plympton and Mill Streets, unguarded, without the stop signs which would change them from possible death traps to normally safe corners...
...Bow Street corner, denizens of the Cafe Mozart have been treated to three serious accidents with the last month and countless near misses. Each driver approaching the intersection claims right of way with a cavalier horn blast. Occupants of the apartments above the Gold Coast have complained to the City about the squeals of brakes and tires which often punctuate the night hours...
...city claims that it costs $30 to provide and install a stop sign. Three signs, one at Mill and two on Bow Street, would remove a significant traffic hazard. It is more charitable, if perhaps less realistic to assume, that the City of Cambridge is lazy rather than concerned about spending another $90. The City should rouse itself from a lethargy that might result in injury or death...