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...street patterns of Cambridge were planned at all, they were planned by a disciple of Jonathan Edwards bent on bequeathing a tangled hell to latter-day Cantabrigians. The streets are often narrow, and they careen into each other at odd angles, forming the squares which dot the map, and clog the traffic. Besides residents and students, floods of commuters from neighboring cities--such as Somerville and Watertown--use the streets on their way in and out of Boston. The numerous construction projects of the universities and private firms often make temporary changes in the traffic patterns necessary...
...withdraw within 3 months "if it decides that extraordinary events, related to the subject matter of this treaty, have jeopardized the supreme interests of its country," This serious loophole should be remembered after the treaty has been endorsed, when the Soviet Union and the United States join to clog the newspapers with what Indian Ambassador Trivedi has called their "pious platitudes...
Movies are another matter. Twelve road shows--each expected to run from two to 12 months--will clog the Sack schedule during the coming year. Films guaranteed a showing must wait months to get into town. If Doctor Doolittle must be postponed, there is little chance to see a smaller film like Edith Evan's The Whisperers. This fall, in an unprecedented move, Funny Girl is to be opened simultaneously in the three Cheri theatres. It will be easier to see Funny Girl, but there will be fewer new films because of a lack of theatres. In any case, there...
...truck out so that people who find it too cold in their cars or tents can spend the night on the firehouse floor. The ladies of the P.T.A. serve home-cooked country ham, chicken and cake at the school. And if the guests get to roughhousing, hooting, doing clog dances and even drinking a little-why, nobody much minds. "They can run around in circles and climb a tree if they want to," says Chief Deputy Sheriff R. L. Warren. "It's all open here...
...crowded that only emergency cases are accepted, and even then the newcomer will probably have to share his bed with another patient or sleep on the floor. Coffins lie unburied for days because of a lack of gravediggers. Practically all the schools are still closed, and children either clog the streets while at play or are kept indoors by nervous, anxious parents...