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Secretly the deputy sheriffs of Contra Costa County rigged up a loudspeaker in the drawer of a bureau in Anacleto's cell with direct telephone communication to the next room. A bright floodlight was turned on Anacleto to keep him from sleeping. Then Deputy Ted Christ, who speaks Spanish, went to work in the next room...
Last autumn word went round among old-line Cook County Democrats that "there was danger of an explosion unless they raised a substantial amount to rescue Sweitzer." Forty thousand dollars was actually subscribed to bring the county's daily cash drawer up to par just before Clerk Sweitzer left office. But a real explosion took place when Sweitzer's successor asked for an audit of county funds. Biggest and most immediate deficiency was found in the fund into which delinquent taxes are paid. In the 24 years which Bob Sweitzer had been custodian of the fund, the audit...
...should win, and the rest of the ten get ants in their pants and run out-you pay the freight-because the Wirephoto contracts do not hold the users jointly and severally liable. I merely suggest that the intelligent thing to do is protect your own cash drawer." Shaking his grey mane, he shouted: "Break away from the throne long enough to show you have some independence left...
...look at this idea of freedom. I will permit a baby, which has just learned to reach for an object, to pull out and push in a bureau drawer as often as it wants to in order to develop its sensory experience. But to let your two-year-old child, who doesn't need that type of sensory experience, pull out and push in a bureau drawer just because it wants to, is downright damaging to his growth...
...receiving an individual medal. Such trinkets as the jewelers of the Square offer each fall to catch the eye of the callow Freshman have no firmly established place in the life of the Harvard man. They are baubles born to blush unseen, to waste their brilliance in the bureau drawer. As such, they might be disposed with as adjuncts of our inter-House program. Before the custom becomes too firmly entrenched in the tradition of the system, it should be rooted...