Word: fines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York restaurants checked by her 46 inspectors were suspected of serving "shamburgers." So she has revived a long-neglected section of the city administrative code, which stipulates that "hamburger shall consist of beef, all beef and nothing but beef"-and decrees a maximum $250 fine and/or ten days in jail for any malefactor. Said Bess: "This is something I've wanted to do for a long time...
...chewing gum and pet food. In April, Japan eased restrictions on seven other items, but most were products as insignificant as boiled pig entrails. A veteran U.S. businessman in Japan explained with annoyance: "They said one day, 'Now you can make radios.' But when you read the fine print, it turned out that you couldn't bring in parts. You couldn't even make a crystal set. Then another round of liberalization came and, by God, now you can bring in parts-for a crystal...
...mind juggles thoughts of green and blue, museums and their breezeless corridors are forgotten. Looking at paintings might be allotted to a day of rain, or to a Sunday stroll if you can not find a ride to the sea. On a summer weekday, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts is silent. Girls in white pinafores stare from the spacious brown canvas by John Singer Sargent across an empty room to the portraits on the opposite wall. A single spectator feels like an intruder, as he passes between a Renoir and a Manet, conversing peacefully in a cool windowless room...
...withdrawing the ordinance he proposed a month ago, which would have established a fine of at least $25 for amplification of sound disturbing the public peace, Councillor Thomas H. D. Mahoney commented, "Enforcement [of existing laws...
...Cambridge City Solicitor Philip M. Cronin '53 stated, "It is my opinion that these and other problems which have arisen from excessive amplification of music at Cambridge common can best be regulated by an existing law...which imposes a jail term of not more than six months or a fine of not more than two hundred dollars or both for disturbing the peace...