Word: mta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard student who found $580 in an MTA car last year lost it in a court decision that ended by fortuitously restoring the money to its owner...
Arno Szegvari '62, and his Radcliffe date Tara J. Dinkel '64, discovered the roll of money in a train at Park Street Station on Nov. 10, 1960, and turned it over to the MTA. Later an MTA employee claimed that he had found it, and Szegvari brought suit against the MTA to obtain the money by right of "finders keepers...
...MTA requested $100 to cover its lawyers' fees, but that compensation was refused by Judge Voke...
...first car of an empty four-car MTA train was derailed at Harvard Square station yesterday morning, delaying an estimated 50,000 commuters. No one was hurt...
...MTA spokesman said the derailment occured when the train went through a red light, setting off an automatic stopper which jolted the front car from the tracks. Workmen replaced the car on the tracks by mid-afternoon...