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Earlier in the evening several undergraduates had noticed a car full of youths parked on Massachusetts Ave., in front of Hayes-Bickford's. "They were racing their motor and shouting, "Come on and fight, Harvard chickens!'" one reported...
Cassandra, who writes in longhand, seldom consults a note or reference source, is more interested in getting his prose right than his facts. Meeting Cassandra in person for the first time, says one old friend, is like being "involved in an extremely unpleasant motor crash." But neither his barbed manner nor the arrogance of his column is any accident. Says Cassandra: "I know how to be hostile, suspicious and skeptical. I can wield these unlovable qualities like a whip...
...tour of General Motors' European plants, President Harlow H. Curtice last week gave out some cheery news for European motorists. Over the next five years, said Curtice in London, G.M.'s British subsidiary, Vauxhall Motors, will spend $101 million for expansion. The money will go for a new body plant 30 miles outside London, and a nearby component-parts factory. With the new additions, Vauxhall, now Britain's fourth biggest automaker, will double output from 130,000 to 260,000 cars and trucks a year, thus provide more cars for export and the rapidly expanding British market...
...refrigerator motor fire in the basement of Liggett's Rexall store, 1310 Mass. Ave., drew ten fire engines, a pickpocket, and a crowd of about 300 spectators Sunday night...
...fire, which evidently began about 8:40 p.m., burned out the insulation of a motor, causing a consequent short circuit. Cambridge fire officials estimated actual damage at about $100 and smoke damage at another...