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After a month long dispute, the Middlesex County Sheriff's Department has full author its to use an East Cambridge jail On Thursday a judge dismissed the city's charges that the jail is a tire hazard where prisoners should not be confined...

Author: By Dora Y. Mao, | Title: Judge Dismisses Jail Case; Inmates to Stay in Cambridge | 3/13/1982 | See Source »

Police are also obtaining information from tire tracks left at the crime site. The man they most often call is Peter McDonald, a veteran designer of tires with Firestone. He can identify almost any tire made and, with the added distinctive details provided by the individual way a tire tread wears down, McDonald has helped solve six murders. In one case, McDonald was first able to show that the car of a suspect in custody did not have the right tires; he then helped nail the actual killers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Mr. Wizard Comes to Court | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

...human beings and with the world. You experience spiritual loneliness. And of course there are the classics to mull over. Dostoyevsky's apathy-with-intensity, and the rage for goodness so near to vileness and murderousness, and Nietzsche and the Existentialists, and all the rest of that. Then you tire of this preoccupation with the condition of being cut off, and it seems better to go out and see at first hand the big manifestations of disorder and take a fresh reading from them...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: Bellow and the Burden of His Past | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

When attached to the tire, the boot renders a car immobile by clamping onto the rim of the tire and locking it in place. The boot also covers the hub cap, thus preventing a motorist from merely taking off the locked tire...

Author: By Steven R. Swartz, | Title: City Parking Violators to Get the Boot | 2/17/1982 | See Source »

...home at lunchtime. He was about seven or eight months old. He'd have a ball and a bat in his hands, standing there waiting for me when I came in the door." Out in the backyard, Joe served Joey as both center and receiver. He swayed the tire through which Joey flung the footballs. In those games, the natural child was never anything but the quarterback. No time was wasted punting the ball or running with it. When he was eight, to qualify him for midget football, they lied and said he was nine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joe Montana: Perfect Timing, Joe: | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

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