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This behavior is, of course, most reprehensible, but Vellucci seems to have had a crise de conscience: at yesterday's meeting, he proposed a motion to honor the memory of Elihu Yale by naming the intersection of Bow and Mt. Auburn Streets "Yale Square." Some memorial to Yale is long over-due in the city of his birth. Vellucci may have had some thoughts of embarassing Councillor Belin (Yale '39) by the measure; the fact that he didn't later his irresponsible style in submitting the measure leads one to suspect it. But if so, Cambridge is for once...
...karts that will turn 85 m.p.h. What both clubs fear is the unsupervised novice who spins around suburban lanes, and the impromptu races held in supermarket parking lots. Last year's casualty list, according to the National Safety Council: five killed. Admits Grand Prix Founder Sherman ("Red") Crise: "If not handled with care, a kart can be darned dangerous. We have to make this sport safe or we'll be out of business in six months...
After the Coffee. The crisis was long abuilding, and a surprise to no one when it came: the only question was which of France's innumerable Cabinet crises would produce the crise de regime. France had been without a government since the fall of Felix Gaillard a month earlier; two would-be Premiers had tried to put together majorities and had failed. Now testy, white-haired Pierre Pflimlin...
...right-wing Independents, a vital element in Premier Gaillard's rickety government coalition, promptly repudiated all the concessions which they had agreed to only two weeks before. In the corridors of the National Assembly, there were ominous whispers that the time was at hand for the crise de regime-the final crisis that would bring down the Fourth Republic...
...French scale of reckoning, a crise grave, which involves major issues, ranks one degree above a crise banale, which is a consequence of pure partisan fighting...