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...Sullivan, so that local police could issue tickets for longstanding meter violations without getting their hip-boots wet. Asked if the Police would tag buried cars, the Mayor snapped, "If we can find them, we'll tag them. They parked the damned things, didn't they?" Mechanization met vain but fierce resistance on the Square, however, as enraged townsmen, swearing the machines were part of a University plot, barracaded themselves inside the crumbling walls of old Fort Yuma. The Public Works Department ("Golden Arm" Sullivan's code name for the 4th Sappers Unmounted Light) attempted to erect scaling ladders...
Protest, however, was in vain. For one reason or another, 21 of the pro-government Assemblymen failed to answer roll call last week when the last of the law's 58 provisions came 10 a vote. Whether that was a gesture of confidence or abstention made no difference: in the final balloting, opposition to the standby constitution was crushed...
...Marxist literary critic named J. G. Quiggin and a liberal named Mark Members, two broke and brilliant university men who symbolize the United Front. They contend for the job as secretary to a rich, vain novelist of inflated reputation. Quiggin, the Marxist, wins, and triumphantly trundles the senile genius in his wheelchair at the head of a workers' demonstration in Hyde Park...
...Coach Floyd Wilson's Crimson, nothing could be done to stop the Tigers. It used a zone defense, switched to a man-to-man, and back to a zone, all in vain. Princeton, after its amazing first half, settled down to a 59 per cent shooting average for the game...
...Paris, where Mozart once sought a paying position in vain, government officials and academicians came to honor him at the Sorbonne. In London, a city to which Mozart considered fleeing from his continental misfortunes, the Royal Festival Hall and Covent Garden opera house were booked solid with Mozart music all week. Prague, the only city that applauded Don Giovanni while Mozart was alive, had a Mozart Week. Moscow presented Figaro at the Bolshoi Theater. Even Japan is broadcasting homage on its five radio stations and their networks, while Tokyo department stores display pictures of the composer in Ginza windows...