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...courthouse. An elderly man was walking round the square whacking headless parking meters with his cedar stick. He said he used to walk around whacking them when the meter tops were attached, but the city had the meters taken off because they cost too much to keep in good repair. "It used to make a bigger racket before they cut 'em down...
They did, however, agree to repair the track at no cost...
...Repair the Statue of Liberty [NATION, May 14]? Better to let it rot. If we fix it up, foreigners looking for a better life might actually believe that we intend to welcome them as we once did. Letting it decay will drive home the truth-that their immigration to this country is no longer regarded as their human right. Now it depends on obtaining the approval of a giant bureaucracy that will hunt them down like dogs if they dare to enter without its approval...
...troops quite a few Hong Kong-made mugs, flags and ashtrays, they made far more money from the British goods they once peddled to Argentine tourists. The Standard Chartered Bank has opened an office on Ross Road, but the capital still has no barber shop, laundry or auto-repair garage...
Tenants argued that the board's decision to grant the removal permit should hinge on the issue of intentional owner neglect. The distressed building provision contains a section which does not allow removal permits in cases where the "owner neglected reasonable maintenance and repair of the building to escape from rent control...