Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Space will not permit a challenge to the statement of Cambridge Police Chief Patrick J. Ready that Cambridge "is no hayfield," but I would like to take issue with the validity of the assumptions upon which the overnight parking ban issued by Cambridge and the University is based...
...understanding is that overnight parking on Cambridge streets is illegal because parked cars (1) constitute a fire hazard and (2) prohibit street cleaning...
...authorities' second assumption for issuing their ban is that overnight parking is detrimental to the efforts of their street cleaning crew. Last summer I had the good fortune to live in the District of Columbia. There, overnight parking on the streets is perfectly legal and yet the street cleaning operation is well executed. There is only a slight bit of residue next to one's tires the next morning. This is my third year in Cambridge and I have yet to witness the streets receiving more than a token cleaning...
...plan, which induces a man to rejoin the service, might be rescinded the year after he comes in. An officer who has spent most of his professional life in some branch of specialized research is apt to find that Congress or the Defense Department has scrapped his whole branch overnight...
...formidable job. There has never been a good, balanced biography of the man, but the standard view among U.S. historians leaves him with low marks for political candor and loyalty, high scores for arrogance and dissimulation. Pratt's Stanton is not apt to change the historians' minds overnight, but he has written a spirited, readable defense of his man that should leave the pros and the antis agreeing on at least one thing: stout Unionist Stanton was a whale of a Secretary of War, who probably did as much as any one man to bring about Union victory...