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...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...
Dean Watson and the Masters of the Houses agree that the spider incident "has solved Harvard's time-honored space problem," and the Administration substitutes a new concept for the old formula of expansion: "liquidation." ...Harvard purchases the MTA yards and President Pusey declares himself "pleased as punch and proud as a peacock," and promises to start construction of a temple within a year. "I think we have never owned so much rolling stock before," he says.... McGeorge Bundy resigns from the Metropolitan Club in Washington. "This has nothing to do with principle, the food there is simply awful...
Another problem facing both Harvard and the MTA is the University's exemption from property taxes. In the past, Cambridge City Councilors have objected to action which would keep the yards off the tax rolls...
...Once the MTA abandons the Bennett St. yards, which are used for storage of electric buses, it will have to increase substantially the number of diesel buses on its Harvard Sq. runs. Only the diesels can be parked at the MTA facilities just north of Cambridge in Somerville...