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...Harvard Square, as the result of some 20 arrests in the last year, the bookies have wised up. They seldom write down a number or horse's name, or keep any other scrap of evidence which might be used against them. To make an arrest the police need only find a slip of paper in a suspect's pocket bearing at least a dozen numbers. Depending on the judge and the number of previous arrests, the defendant may get probation, a suspended sentence, a stiff fine ($50-$1000), or a jail sentence--sometimes coupled with another fine...
...week's end, only one scrap of evidence had been picked up in the Baltic-an empty yellow life raft of the type issued to Navy patrol bombers. This week, the U.S. charged that the Russians shot down the plane over open waters and demanded indemnity for the dead American flyers. But it was a sign of U.S. awareness of the incidental perils of cold war, that there were no shouts for any hot fighting to begin...
...most were dreadful. But Robert Howard's slim pear wood Semaphore was there to show how elegant three-dimensional abstractions can be. Peter Lipman-Wulf's Horse and Man looked as if it had been made for fun from the contents of a carpenter's scrap barrel. Despite its casual air it was as tense and tightly constructed as anything in the show...
...born Conductor Josef Blatt stepped onstage to conduct a concert of the Arkansas State Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Blatt faced the audience, beet-red with embarrassment: "This is one of those things that happens once in a million times. The orchestra is here. I am here. But we left every scrap of our music in Little Rock . . . there will be no concert." Then he promised to bring the orchestra back two days later-with the music...
...Mettle. In Troy, N.Y., Justice O'Connor suspended Robert Banks's sentence for public intoxication after the defendant confessed to drinking a concoction he called "scrap iron": a blend of sherry, rye and corn liquor...