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...course favored by many an aristocrat facing hard times: marrying into money. Last week, three days after Japanese investors bought a majority interest in Rockefeller Center, the 67-year-old maker of sleek, purring luxury sports cars and sedans agreed to be taken over by America's Ford Motor for $2.5 billion. The deal is likely to win approval from the required 75% of Jaguar's stockholders...
...last year, both Duehay and Wolf voted against the sale of property rights on the site of the Harvard Motor House, correctly arguing that the city had almost no idea of the actual worth of the property. Unlike the majority of the City Council, they did not simply place their trust in the developer's promise that the deal was a fair one. Two more years of a little healthy suspicion would serve the council well...
...Council set a special meeting Friday to consider Healy's contract, but the Motor Inn will not come up until the next regular meeting, on January 23. Both items had been postponed once and were due to come up Monday night, but the Council endorsed by voice vote Councillor Walter J. Sullivan Jr.'s motion to table all previously postponed items...
Carpenter and Co., the Motor Inn site's developer, cannot proceed with its plans unless the Council lets City Manager Robert W. Healy transfer the city's right to operate a municipal parking lot on the ground floor of the Inn--legally known as an easement--to an indoor garage in another part of the new building...
...said before, I don't mean to sound like an old fuddy duddy who'd rather walk than take a motor car or who'd rather write long, languishing letters than call (although at least the latter is true). I just think we've got to realize that some people like L.P.'s even if they're turning into musical neanderthals. C.D. players are kind of like car phones or answering machines with remote call-in--sure they're an improvement, an advance, a fine addition to any upwardly mobile life. But they're heartless. They force us to evolve...