Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...picks up the line. "Why don't you wait in the booth, sir," she says. "We'll send one over as soon as we can." She turnes to her co-worker "When can we get someone over to the garage?" She laughs. "A guy has a larceny on his car." A car responds to the call and heads to the Everett St. Garage. The rover car follows. Time elapsed--three minutes. On the second floor of the garage a flustered old man complains that his station wagon has been broken into. When did he park it there, the police officer...
...eases out of the car and walks, slowly, over to the hood and pulls it open. He mutters under his breath--he can't understand why "they" broke into his car. The battery is still there but the ignition has been tampered with. The officer asks his affiliation with Harvard. "I don't do anything at Harvard," he answers unperturbed. The officers are puzzled. The straightforwardness of his answer brings smiles to their faces, because the parking lot is reserved for Harvard affiliates. "I'm a retired colonel in the Corps of Engineers," the man quickly retorts...
...Woman screaming on Chauncy and Garden"...Sgt. Peter A. O'Hare, supervisor for the 12 a.m.-to-8 a.m. shift, pulls onto Mass Ave and turns on the speed. Cars block his way--he uses the manual light switch. The cars clear. he turns down Shepard. "Negative, disregard woman screaming." ..."Car 1 to' base...It looks like the woman was just leaving the party at Bertram with a friend...
...criminal justice system could make a huge difference." That proved overly hopeful. Police commissioners around the country, he learned, "simply do not know what to do to reduce crime." For example, expensive new communications systems have been widely installed to cut down the time it takes a police car to reach the scene of a crime. Yet the speedup proved only marginally useful; as one study revealed, victims usually wait up to an hour before they even call the police. Without citizen cooperation, says Silberman, police can do little to crack crimes. They are better off trying to stay close...
...they can do wonders for reputation. We might feel different about Van Gogh if, instead of shooting himself in the gut at 37, he had died full of age and honors in bed. The demand for Jackson Pollock's least scribble might be less fierce if a skidding car had not sent him the way of James Dean. And what of Mark Rothko, who killed himself with a razor and pills in 1970? In hindsight, death appeared to be the central image of Rothko's late, dark, claustrophobic canvases. Indeed, his suicide gave his art a simplified legibility that...