Word: drives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this afternoon in the City Council chambers, the Council's committee on ordinances will hold a public hearing on proposals for legislation to prohibit pinball machines. Instigator of the drive is Councilor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, who sees the machines as "a source of vice and evil in the community...
DeGuglielmo has said that he is not worried about college students playing the machines but feels that in the community at large they attract crowds of teen-agers and tend to encourage juvenile delinquency. He started the drive with a Council order early in March asking the City Solictor to prepare legislation for banning the machines...
DeGuglielmo said that his campaign has already brought him messages of congratulation and approval from many Cambridge citizens, especially parents. He also appears to have won some Council support for his drive, though other Councilors have expressed a desire to hear what pinball operators have to say in defense of the machines...
...busy. Though he ducked a press conference, he presided over meetings of Republican congressional leaders, the National Security Council and the Cabinet, as well as over the swearing-in of Secretary of State Herter and Special Consultant John Foster Dulles. He also opened a new chapter in his drive for a balanced budget by briefly taking advantage of the public-opinion spotlight focused on the I.C.C. meeting and on a meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers...
Fred Karp, having a good day at the plate against his former Latin teammates, belted a double to center in the fourth and went to third on the outfielder's error. He scored on first baseman Marc Kolden's drive down the right field line...