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...unemployed Boston barber whose body was dropped on a Cambridge sidewalk early Sunday morning by three unidentified men may have been killed by a hit-and-run motorist, authorities speculated yesterday...

Author: By Adam H. Gorfain, | Title: City Corpse May Be A Hit-Run Victim | 11/22/1983 | See Source »

...other officers stood on Mem. Drive near the Mass. Ave. Bridge, stopping each eastward-bound motorist for about 10 seconds between 10:45 p.m. and 12 midnight and warning them of the dangers of and penalties for driving while intoxicated...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: Police Set Up Local Roadblock, Aim to Nab Drunken Drivers | 10/11/1983 | See Source »

...officers believed that any of the drivers were driving while intoxicated, they would have subjected him to a field sobriety test, which includes walking a straight line and touching his own nose. The police would arrest a motorist who failed, bring him back to the station and administrator a breathalyzer test...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: Police Set Up Local Roadblock, Aim to Nab Drunken Drivers | 10/11/1983 | See Source »

...gruesome murder and a lucky tip, a pretty American victim and a jet-setting suspect from a dazzlingly wealthy British family. The case could have been a thriller co-written by Agatha Christie and Evelyn Waugh. It began three weeks ago when a motorist in a lonely part of Exeter Forest stumbled upon a headless, bullet-ridden, badly decomposed corpse. Police eventually determined that the victim's beige cotton T shirt had been made in Morocco and her pink polyester shorts purchased in San Francisco. Then they received a call from an informed source suggesting that those clothes might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: The Good Life | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

...crackdown drove some Bostonians to extralegal tactics. After being booted three times, one frustrated motorist tried to avoid prosecution for illegal parking by unscrewing out-of-state plates from neighboring cars and placing them over his incriminating Massachusetts ones. "It was simply impossible to find a legal space," he explains. Even the well-connected began looking for shortcuts. The Boston Globe revealed last month that Deputy Mayor Lowell Richards III had dismissed $1,080 in parking tickets for three children of Thomas McGee, the speaker of the Massachusetts house of representatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spaced Out | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

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