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...making night-time parking in the streets impossible. They shrug off all suggestions of alternate side parking by noting that it is illegal and that we must be good citizens and uphold the law. They ignore the fact that Cambridge residents are rarely fined for overnight parking and add insult to injury by levying fines which are almost three times as high as Cambridge's. The Administration explains that the higher rates and stricter enforcement are necessary because Cambridge fines are too low and too rarely enforced. Just why the University does not urge Cambridge to enforce its own laws...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Big Squeeze | 9/26/1956 | See Source »

...four hotels (a fifth is building) seldom bother to take down their "no vacancy" signs, and their barrooms are perpetually jammed around the clock with unshaven miners and prospectors just in from the bush, and ready to swing a rock-hard fist at the drop of an insult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Bonanza in the Bush | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

Died. Archie Galbraith Cameron, 61, terrible-tempered Speaker (since 1950) of Australia's House of Representatives (in 1940, as Minister for both Commerce and the Navy, he refused to retract an insult made on the floor of the House, became the only Minister in the Commonwealth to be voted out of a Parliament for disciplinary reasons); of a lung ailment; in Sydney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 20, 1956 | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

...four years in the U.S. Navy, I have seen broken and ruined furniture in some of the finest hotels in Europe, all left behind by G.Ls. As a lot they are a group of vulgar-mouthed, bragging, drunken apes who roam the streets of foreign countries seeking someone to insult or something to destroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 6, 1956 | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

...jury, led by ex-Dean Joseph Hudnut of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, compounded their insult by rating M.I.T.'s impressively daring Kresge Auditorium, adjacent to the Chapel and also by Saarinen, at the bottom of the list and emphasizing in their decision that "we wish it understood ... that the award is for the chapel building alone." They should be downright ashamed of themselves...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb., | Title: Boston Arts Festival Praised As Greatest Success to Date | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

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