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...City Council, which has spent most of its current term unravelling the work of its predecessor, continued the trend last night, taking the first steps toward blocking destruction of the University-owned Harvard Motor House...
...jury last year that she had not used drugs and was only a casual friend of Barry's. But she renewed talks with authorities after a drunk-driving arrest in Los Angeles on New Years' Day; once before, she served six months in prison for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. Another explanation for her cooperation is that she feared being charged with perjury for her grand jury testimony about Barry and Charles Lewis, a convicted drug dealer. In December 1988 the Washington police were about to arrest Lewis, when Barry turned up in the man's hotel room...
...written, the bill would have applied to two hotels owned by Harvard: the Quality Motor Inn on Mass Ave.--earmarked for eventual use as Law School housing--and the Harvard Motor House on Mt. Auburn St., which is scheduled to be demolished to make way for an office building...
...ugly duckling of East Germany's roadways. The ubiquitous "Trabi" has not had its flaky Duraplast body redesigned since the first mass-production models rolled off the assembly line in 1964. Its motorcycle- size two-stroke engine coughs out more pollution than almost any other auto. Often the motor's two cylinders come on line one at a time until they sputter in unison in a puff of blue smoke, sounding uncannily like an ancient sewing machine...
Museums in Brunswick and Munich have bought some of the old clunkers to preserve what is perhaps the humblest symbol of one of the most extraordinary years in German history. Concluded Auto Motor und Sport: "The plain Beetle became a symbol of our economic miracle. The Trabant, its simple counterpart from the East, gave the first impulse to an even greater miracle." Proving, of course, that looks aren't everything...