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Easily the most splenetic protest was voiced by Miami's Police Benevolent Association. In an extraordinary telegram, the association warned the Miami Beach Tourist Development Authority (which had promoted the Republican invitation): "You are now put on notice that civil action suits will be filed against your organization and individual members of the executive board on behalf of each and every Miami police officer and Miami citizen that is killed, injured or indicted as a result of the Republican National Convention and Democratic National Convention...
Robert Bowyer, head of Cambridge's Department of Planning and Development, worries that the character of the Square may change, turning into that of a tourist center...
...barring acts of God or a radical takeover of city government, the transformation of Harvard Square is unstoppable. Whether the Class of '72 spends its fifth reunion in a honky-tonk tourist trap, or a thriving, accessible, commercially diverse Harvard Square, will be known quite soon
...target of at least a dozen previous assassination attempts. At week's end, though, it was not yet clear which of the Sheik's many enemies had taken their revenge, or whether the assassination would lead to another period of prolonged violence and factional infighting on what tourist posters used to describe as the "Clove-Scented Isles...
Must I Undress? Inevitably, the tourist falls sick. At the doctor's, he is likely to complain of "a poisoning, a noseache, an eye-pain or quinsy," followed by a plaintive "Must I undress?" The best remedy may be fresh air. How about a tour of an American farm? The Russian is naturally interested in the workings of the capitalist agricultural system. "Is this a private windmill?" he asks. "What are the peasants in the county chiefly preoccupied with...