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American Family, now decorating the new Police Facilities Building, brought from one city councilman an enraged blast ("A shameless, soulless, faceless, raceless monstrosity"), and from six taxpayers a suit for its removal...
...Wild Melodrama . . ." As the testimony rambled on, industry spokesmen conjured up several novel defenses of their wares. Columbia's Jerry Wald asserted the right of U.S. moviemakers, unlike that of Soviet producers, to criticize their country's seamy side; Motion Picture Industry Councilman Lou Greenspan fell back on the Bible, where "murder, adultery, even incest are described." One movie adman piously explained, when Kefauver cited an advertisement showing two scantily clothed lovers grappling suggestively, that it could have been worse: "In the original [drawing] submitted to us they were clad only in beads. We at least put pants...
...some 1,500 student car-owners at the College, the spring of 1955 has hardly been an auspicious one. First University Hall placed a dozen undergraduates on probation for "flagrant" parking violations, and then local citizens, led by Councilman Edward J. Sullivan, demanded that the University permit only seniors to have automobiles at school. Together these two events have seemingly jeopardized the undergraduate's car-owning privilege. At the very least they have caused the student to await with apprehension the Administration's next decision on the parking problem...
...introduce himself. He did not have to. This was not the first meeting Councilman Edward J. Sullivan had called with his district's residents and, from the appearance of the problem, it would not be the last. "This meeting has been called, as you all know because the parking problem in this College area has produced a dangerous condition," the Councillor continued. Then he paused. "And it has been proven that the students are the big offenders," he added quickly. The crowd murmured its approval...
...meeting, which will be held at 135 Banks St., was scheduled after several residents, mostly from the streets surrounding Dunster, Winthrop, and Leverett Houses, had filed complaints with Sullivan, their district councilman...