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...result of the Cambridge Police Department's decision to enforce a law forbidding bike parking on city sidewalks, Seth A. Schaffer '63, Secretary of HCUA, and John R. Taylor '65 met Rudolph to discuss finding a place to park the bikes. No definite decision was reached, but Rudolph said that he would look into the problem, and made several suggestions about what might be done...
Rudolph said that the city might set off a certain number of parking spaces Massachusetts Ave. for bikes. He mentioned the possibility of setting up bike racks behind the information booth in Harvard Square. Cambridge cannot afford to pay for these racks, but private organization bought them the city would make room for them...
Tierney also plans to crack down on Radcliffe girls who "make a game of trying to stay on the white line in the middle of the road" while riding along Garden St. From now on, claimed Tierney "Girl, bike, and little green bag are going to get a free ride to Central Square, via paddy wagon...
Last month, in the 156-mile Paris-to-Brussels race. Van Looy was sprinting from deep in the pack when he smashed head-on into a tangle of fallen cyclists near the France-Belgium border. Slithering over the cobblestones, he fell heavily on his own bike frame, gashed his shoulder badly, and was carted off to the hospital...
Most racers would have taken time off to recuperate. Not Van Looy. Fortnight ago, the Emperor and his red guard pedaled out of Milan om the start of one of bike racing's toughest and richest events: the $72,000 Giro d'Italia, a 21-day marathon that winds 2,608 miles around the Italian peninsula and traverses 6000-ft.-high mountain passes in a brutal test of stamina as well as speed. Last week, with seven legs completed and 14 to go, Van Looy suffered from stomach and leg cramps. But he was within striking distance...