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Massachusetts' hopes for an effective express transit system to the South Shore and perhaps Harvard's designs for the Bennett St. MTA yards quite suddenly began to look futile yesterday. The State Senate finally rejected Governor Volpe's plan to purchase the Old Colony Line of the New Haven Railroad...
...bill would have authorized the Commonwealth to buy the ailing line from the deficit-ridden New Haven for what constitutes salvage rates, a low $1,159,000. It was part of he Governor's plan to link up the services of the Old Colony and the MTA and thus provide an extensive system for the South Shore...
After a march around the Yard falled to enlist substantial support from Harvard freshmen, the Engineers prostrated themselves before the status of John Harvard and then left by the PBH gate. The demonstrators were greeted at the MTA entrance by a squad of riot-trained Cambridge policemen, who herded them into the subway and waved happily as they departed...
Eliot has called for a committee representing various groups in the area. McClellan noted that the City plans to establish a Harvard Square Study Committee which would be supplemental to the Planning Board and would include representatives of the City, the MTA, Harvard and Radcliffe, and the Harvard Square Businessmen's Association, among others...
Meanwhile, at Harvard, the typical reaction to St. Patrick's Day was, "Yeah, now that you mention it, I guess it is." MTA employees celebrated the glories of the day with a gathering at Cronin...