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...plan was passed by the Cambridge City Council, despite vigorous opposition from Councillor John J. Foley, who termed it an invitation to "burglars, rapists, and thieves . . . to come into Cambridge, watch a prowl car go by, and then do their damage...
Police foot routes will be cut from 33 to 13, and the number of prowl cars increased from four to nine in a six-month experiment beginning next month, Cambridge Police Chief John R. King disclosed last night...
...under inflated rubber dinghies taken from their parachute seat packs. Captain Barry, last to leave his stricken ship, came down in a shallow pond and spent the rest of the miserable night on the shore. Corporal Richard J. Schuler passed a wakeful, uneasy night alone listening to a bear prowl about his improvised parachute tent...
...that is favorable for the growth of micro-organisms (and most places are) is a churning battleground of small, fierce creatures. A pinch of moist soil weighing one gram, for instance, may contain more bacteria (up to 2 billion) than there are people on earth. Among the ordinary creatures prowl savage protozoa engulfing them one by one. There is an underworld, too, made up of submicroscopic viruses, hardly more than big molecules, which often invade the larger organisms and multiply explosively...
Paul Presbrey, a small, hard-eyed police reporter who covers St. Paul for the Cowles-owned Minneapolis Star and Tribune, is too nervous to sleep more than four or five hours a night; frequently he climbs out of bed at 3 or 4 a.m. to prowl St. Paul in search of news. With his luck, aggressiveness and insatiable curiosity, Presbrey regularly beats the ears off his rivals on fast-breaking stories...