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...later said they had wanted to seize the three Soviets months ago, but that the State Department was reluctant to have the U.N. employees arrested. The department dropped its objections, says the FBI, when shown photographs of the Russians retrieving that sour-smelling milk carton from the base of the South Amboy telephone pole...
...with a warning. One experienced pair of 26-year-old cops, with modish long hair and sideburns, spun around Bedford-Stuyvesant in a battered 1970 Dodge painted to look like a gypsy taxi. They spied a young boy carrying a big box. The frightened kid dropped the carton, and glass tinkled. "What's in the box, Johnny?" asked one of the policemen. ''Booze, man, liquor," replied the kid. "Where'd you get it, Johnny?" "I bought it, man, paid money for it." The cop peered into the box and saw the markings of a newly looted liquor store on broken...
...town meeting in Huntington, one needs only to have paid the $1 poll tax. Of the 519 citizens eligible to cast ballots, about 130 braved a healthy snowfall to show up during the course of the 4½-hour meeting. At 10 a.m., Moderator Norman Cummings, 47, a carton designer at the General Electric plant in nearby Burlington, opened the proceedings with the customary "Hear ye, hear ye," and began going through the eleven-item agenda. Children scurried about the benches, and old folk chatted quietly in the corners. Some wandered out, and others came in from the snow outside...
...Stanley Baker, head of the antitrust division, gets his way, Brown's case will be no fluke. Under Baker, a record 90 grand juries around the U.S. will probe charges of price fixing in various industries. Baker, as one of his assistants notes, sought the sentences against the carton executives "to drive home the point that price fixing is a serious crime." The clear implication: some other executives could join the box bosses behind bars...
...telescopic sight on any of the 92,000 assembled fans, among whom are the mayor of L.A., the Governor of California, the President of the U.S. (who is en route) and Merv Griffin (who opens the football game by delivering the national anthem as if it were a carton of half-and-half). Not even all this is enough. Besides worrying about who is going to get shot, and when, we must fret over who will win the big game between L.A. and Baltimore...