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Richard Cahill, a sergeant with the Cambridge Police who has patrolled the Harvard Square-Cambridge Common area for the last 12 years, said yesterday the crime rate there has dropped drastically since 1974. "Both the Common and the Square are safer these days," Cahill said...
Dean Spencer '77, of Currier House, said yesterday he feels "a little anxiety" walking through the Common at night, but finds it safer than it has been in the past...
...there will be a great increase in the number of heads of families aged 25 to 44 who earn more than $25,000, and this will lead to a surge in sales of houses, furnishings, cars and other fairly costly goods. A happy forecast - and it is even safer to anticipate that DRI will continue to grow faster than most of the indicators that it monitors...
There are always dangers in childbirth, and clearly, in the event of an unexpected medical crisis, both mother and baby are safer with immediate access to hospital facilities. Still, if money talks, and it usually does, the use of properly trained midwives is a service that U.S. medicine and U.S. mothers can hardly afford to do without. Says Dr. Donald Creevy, a California obstetrician who favors the new bill: "The medical profession can't go on saying, 'If you don't accept good care on our terms, you don't get good care...
...great piggy-bank robbery," as Paris papers called the heist, was almost certainly an inside job. Whoever masterminded the theft first had to know that the Administration des Monnaies et Medailles, which mints French coins, frequently ships them as ordinary freight, on the theory that transporting cash anonymously is safer than using armed guards. Next he had to know how and when last week's consignment was due to be transferred from the administration's plant in Pessac, outside Bordeaux, to the Bank of France in Paris. That intelligence was even more strictly guarded...