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...administrative coordinator of disabled students' services was appointed and a task force of administrators and students was created to supervise Harvard's compliance with the new regulation. Together they have been responsible for introducing many important improvement such as ramps, curb cuts, wheelchair lifting devices, an accessible microbus providing on-campus transportation for the ambulatory impaired and, soon, a tactile map for the blind. Numerous modifications have been planned for all the faculties over the next two years...
...University complied with the Federal Rehabilitation Act last spring, purchasing the $8900 Volkswagon Microbus that will provide the necessary on-call, door-to-door service for handicapped students...
...Volkswagen: gasoline and electric power (20 m.p.g.); 69.3 in. wide; 77 in. high; wheelbase 94.5 in.; a variation of the VW Microbus model. Five passengers; retractable step, sliding door...
...groups, so you had to settle for poor tonality and a lot of onstage internecine politicking and back-stabbing. (See photo) Warren and the Burgers, and all that. But this weekend, my friend, you need only hop into your car (and I hope it's a microbus with drapes and carpeting in the back) and head on out to the 2001 Center in Gill, Mass. ("2001," we may suppose, is as good a reminder as any that the next century will have its sixties, too--only 94 more years!!) I don't even have to tell you who's going...
...Superpowered Detroit turnpike cruisers? Dazzling convertibles or cute little bugs? Forget it. For any self-respecting American kid these days, the hottest vehicle suddenly seems to be a 1964 Ford Econoline van, say, or a beat-up GMC or scruffy Dodge A100 or-for the hipper elements-a Volkswagen Microbus or panel truck suitably scrunched around the fenders. There is method to this madness for vans: in increasing numbers the chunky vehicles are serving not only as transportation but also as mobile homes for the nation's youth...