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...outfit who gave me the right number, who indeed had the car, at Fresh Pond, for $50. Reinspection of the site of the crime yielded damning evidence: There are warning signs on the abutting building, but none on the road or sidewalk, and none whatsoever posted perpendicular to the driver's point of view...
Well! Next I approached two Cambridge officers. "Know who owns Winthrop Street?" "You been towed?" "Yes." "Harvard!" Well, well!! I grabbed a cab to Fresh Pond Shopping Center ($5) and told the driver to head out back, as per instructions. "You been towed?" he asked. "Yep. You a regular on this route?" "Oh, I've been here before, heh-heh. They do a lot of towing, especially on weekend nights, when out-of-towners come to the Square." Phil's Tows claimed not to know who authorized the job and overcharged me too, according to documents on file with...
Despite the appeals for safety measures, there is little support for strict firearms laws. In Houston, gun control is as unpopular as zoning. A Texan with a driver's license or similar I.D. can walk into a gun shop, sign a federal firearms form and purchase a weapon. No waiting period or local registration is required. The absence of any significant restrictions on gun ownership has helped put firearms in more than a few bedroom closets and night-table drawers --and, it seems, into the hands of youngsters who do not realize how lethal the weapons...
...call for Detroit-only shopping is expected to have limited success, even among blacks who have been insulted by Dearborn's racial attitudes. Fred Morgan, 39, a Detroit truck driver, long ago dropped the idea of buying a house in Dearborn, in part because he felt unwelcome. But he still will shop there. "I was out last night looking for an air compressor," he said. "Where am I going to get one in Detroit for the kind of price I can find in the suburbs...
...taxi driver heard the shots and immediately called for help. When police arrived, Mrs. Palme, herself grazed across the back by a bullet, said, "Don't you recognize me? My Olof has been shot." Within minutes Palme was rushed to Sabbatsberg Hospital, where doctors struggled in vain to keep him alive. At six minutes past midnight Saturday morning he was declared dead. Palme thus became the first Swedish leader to be killed since King Gustav III was shot to death at a masked ball at Stockholm's opera house...