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...latest clash of interests centers about parking space. It seems that tax-type citizens object to members of Dunster and Leverett Houses usurping the streets that surrounded those Houses. City Councillor Sullivan sides with the taxpayers. He figures that they should have the advantage of those parking spaces, despite the fact that it is theoretically as illegal for tax-payers to park there as it is for students. But anyone who has beaten the system by parking overnight--without ever being ticketed--on those streets that are generally filled with Massachusetts license plates know that theory is a very relative...
...Councillor Sullivan has long had Harvard's interest in view, in his sights one might say, and his annual Spring Parking Drive has always been a sign that good weather is not far away. This year he has been urging that only seniors be allowed to bring cars to Harvard. This is one solution. But the simplest is ever the best, and a much simpler way of solving the parking problem is evident. Harvard should foreclose the mortgages and end the leases it holds in the vicinity of the University, turning the vacated land into parking lots. There really...
...Councillor Charles Watson has asked the Council to hire an official U.S. census taker to check the new city figures...
...crowd of over 150 anxious citizens met last night to hear City Councillor Edward J. Sullivan promise immediate action in relieving cluttered streets in the College area of illegally parked students' cars...
Sullivan's proposal, which he called "Operation Parking," included a two-hour parking limit and one-side parking on the streets surrounding Leverett and Dunster Houses. Under the councillor's plan, only non-residents in the area will be prosecuted for violations...