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...team of Federal officials visited Cambridge last month to inspect the site the new building--the northeast corner of the Yard where Hunt Hall, of the four buildings currently used by the Design School, is located...
...REALLY WANT TO DO (Imperial). Chér solos the Dylan song that lays down Martin Buber's I-Thou philosophy for teenagers: "I don't want to select you, dissect you, inspect you or reject you./ All I really want to do is be friends with you." Chér turns out to have a coarse, grainy alto voice with a wide-open quality that projects a lot of feeling without too much sentimentality...
...well as indicating where and when they would like to vacation. Interested subscribers write back, and after as many as ten letters have passed back and forth, an agreement is reached. For prices ranging from $25 to $75, the club in Old Greenwich will locate houses, check references, inspect the neighborhood and close the deal...
...stations: one man asked for his gas money back because the attendant neglected to wipe his windshield (complaint accepted), and one woman wanted back the $2.50 that her son had put in the vending machines (accepted). For Jim Donnell, 55, who spends more than half his time jetting to inspect his many outposts, success has its disappointing aspects. He feels most at home down by the old mill stream, and he should. There is a Donnell Building, a Donnell Stadium, a Donnell Junior High-and Marathon even owns the town's airport...
...this Draconian doctrine traces back to 1911 when an upstate New York gravestone dealer named Donald MacPherson was driving his new Buick at 15 m.p.h. A wheel flew off, the car flipped, and MacPherson wound up in the hospital. He sued the Buick Co. for negligence in failing to inspect the defective wheel. Buick raised what was then a plausible defense: it had never sold MacPherson anything directly, since he bought from a dealer. Therefore, said Buick, it could not be held liable to MacPherson for negligence...