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...need of finding a better link between Oxford's shopping center and its spreading industrial suburbs to the east, Minister Sandys thrust aside 15 other plans and decided to drive a brand-new road through one of the most sacred academic groves on earth, the Christ Church Meadow...
...hallowed grassiness spread between Christ Church and Merton College and the crew-splashed "Isis" that is the River Thames. To Christ Church dons the explanation for it all was maddeningly simple: Minister Sandys was an Oxonian, yes, but a Magdalen man! The idea was to steer through the meadow the High Street traffic that now thunders past Sandys' old college over Magdalen Bridge. This, of course, delighted Magdalen and the other half-dozen colleges fronting on High Street. Oxford's city councilors, pleased that Sandys had made the decision they had been ducking for 30 years, also seemed...
...easily routed, however. Slowly, intrepidly, they sought to marshal the sort of massive force that does not make a fuss but simply thwarts, delays and transforms. The Oxford Preservation Trust, an ancient body dedicated to the maintenance of Oxford's ancient monuments and landmarks, mobilized against the Meadow road. High Street merchants began protesting that diversion of traffic from their doors would bankrupt them. A town planner was found who was ready to prove that the plan was unworkable. The university's ruling Hebdomadal Council met in deepest secrecy and significantly failed to endorse the new scheme. From...
Simourian will succeed Kenneth Rossano '56 of Kirkland and East Meadow. Rossano, a right-handed pitcher, is probably out for the season with a broken left thumb...
Also, Lindsay D. Fischer of Leverett and Colorado Springs; Vincent R. Larson, of Adams and Minot, N.D.; James M. Murphy of Eliot and New York City; and Kenneth Rossano of Kirkland and East Meadow...