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More Potential. Houston's Negro is a prolific buyer of appliances; for each dollar spent on home furnishings, 54? goes for washing machines, stoves, refrigerators, air conditioners, etc. Seventeen of 20 households plan to buy more appliances or furniture this year. Among Houston Negroes, 40.6% families own vacuum cleaners, 85.6% refrigerators, 37.6% TV sets...
...Seventeen cars have been towed away in Harvard Square as part of the Cambridge Police Department's efforts to control parking violations, Police Chief Patrick F. Ready said yesterday...
Ready stated that the owners of the cars had either ignored "up to seventeen" parking tickets or were operating illegally registered cars. Ready then warned that students could be fined up to $100 for the latter offense and threatened court action against habitual violators of the parking regulations...
...saved enough to realize his aim of getting back to Japan and his mother. Foreign ships were not permitted to enter Japanese harbors, but a U.S. captain agreed to drop Manjiro and two of his friends in a small boat which Manjiro had bought and taken aboard. Seventeen days out of Hawaii, the Japanese went over the side, four miles off Ryukyu. Manjiro was home, but it took "months of interrogation" before suspicious officials were satisfied that he had not picked up dangerous ideas...
...earth." But then, illustrating an astonishing Air Force two-headedness, Quarles admitted that Air Force Chief of Staff Nate Twining thought he needed an extra $7 billion over and above the budgeted $16.5 billion for the coming fiscal year to boost the number of bomber wings from eleven to seventeen...