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Trees and Thieves. Like many cities, Washington is toiling to stamp out the world's oldest profession. One reason is that prostitutes' customers, including some of the capital's hordes of visitors, are easy prey to mugging as an unexpected part of their transaction. One common police technique involves male plainclothesmen, who arrest girls who solicit them. For the past three months, Washington has been reversing the process by using three female decoys to catch the male customers...
...Italy these days, no spaghetti western is complete without his brutal snarl. He will star in four pictures this year, produce a fifth himself and is currently averaging $5,000 a week. Rome's feline newspapers may mock him as "the world's oldest hippie," but Slander's fans have made him something of a European folk hero...
About 100 past, present, and omnipresent residents of Massachusetts Hall gathered in the Holoyke Center penthouse last night to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the construction of the hall, which is the College's oldest building still standing...
...comforting to see that Harvard, the oldest university in America, is finally giving a birth certificate to the oldest bastard language in the world," commented Martin Kaplan '70, a member of the program...
That policy has already caused some notable casualties. Last month the dust sheets went over the chemin de fer tables at Crockford's, which ranked as one of London's oldest and plushest gambling clubs. Founded in 1827, Crockford's was forced to close because its owners' backgrounds did not meet the rigid standards of the new gambling code. George Raft's Colony Sporting Club on Berkeley Square is also shuttered, and Raft himself has been declared persona non grata by the Home Office. Other closings will certainly follow; by year's end Britain...