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...first major post-war riot did not occur until November of 1949, when the Princeton football team came to tow About 150 Tiger partisans started Friday night rally; 200 Harvard men moved in to break it up, only to be followed by 50 University and Cambridge police...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: Grim Police, Gay Students Battling Since 163 | 5/31/1952 | See Source »

...second time on the screen this month, the F.B.I. relentlessly tracks down its red prey. But while its success is due to modern science in Walk East on Beacon, it is due on ancient fate and blind luck in The Atomic City . Save for a junior, tow-headed edition of Lanny Budd on a bicycle and a raffle ticket, Joe Stalin might be sitting in the White House even now, the country's cities in ruins...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: The Atomic City | 5/29/1952 | See Source »

Enrollment: 307 (plus tow working for special degrees...

Author: By Erik Amfitheatrof and David C. D. rogers, S | Title: Bennington --- Every Girl for Herself | 5/16/1952 | See Source »

...Department of Public Works expects to begin work on the street early next week, at which time police will tow away any parked car. On the night before resurfacing work is started, police will post "no parking" signs on both sides of Plympton Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Forbid Plympton Street Parking as Resurfacing Begins | 5/15/1952 | See Source »

There is only one good explanation for the disappearance of those Sno-Gos. That is the salutary and invigorating effect of the common snowplow on the activities of local policemen and their minions. At the first signs of snow the minions are out with their tow trucks. "Snow Removal," they mutter, as they yank your car off to their garage, looking nervously over their shoulders for the snout of the all-devouring plow looming up behind a drift. They might as well be looking for a Sno-Go. The tow trucks come and go, but still squatting in the rectangular...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: God Put It There... | 2/28/1952 | See Source »

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