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...July 27: I have moved to another hotel, which is also cheaper.... But when I got back yesterday there was a young mustachioed and shiny-booted policeman, sunglasses and apparently sleeping, waiting in the lobby. I was terrified that my room would be searched and my books found, so I hid them in a hole in the wall and composed a dramatic letter to my friends in Boston telling them not to worry, but if they didn't get another letter in a week, call the American Embassy. I still don't know anyone here. As it turns...
Barbara Kelley, a technician at the Massachusetts General Hospital. was convicted on counts of assault and battery on a policeman and rude and disorderly conduct. She was sentenced to two months in the House of Correction and fined $100. She is appealing the assault and battery charge...
Behind Nixon's doctrine is the realization that, largely because of Viet Nam, the day has passed when the U.S. can, or should, serve as the world's policeman. Congress has shown hearty agreement by pruning military budget requests with increasingly sharp knives. A Navy admiral, looking over the list of important Pacific facilities going on the inactive roster, recently declared ruefully: "Hell, when you don't have any money, indispensable things become dispensable...
...flame burst out suddenly at 8:30 p.m. By 8:48, a Cambridge policeman said it was "pretty well under control...
Inside the building, owned by the Wasserman Corp., no floors remained on the second and third stories. Firemen attributed this to the fire, although one Cambridge policeman said that the building was in the process of demolition and this could have accounted for the absence of the floors...