Word: parks
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First of all, survey's conducted in Boston department stores show that shoppers who come to the store in cars buy 40 percent more merchandise that those who arrive by bus or subway. Secondly, parking lots farther away then 800 feet from shopping centers have proven unsuccessful and discouraging. Motorists prefer to come by MTA channels rather than park this far away. Thirdly, surface parking lots have been voted much more efficient than either the subterranean or "skyscrapper" variety, especially for a highly transient trade...
...large share of the inconveniences caused by traffic congestion. They are, however, innocently responsible for a large share of this same congestion. Excluding graduate schools on the Boston side of the Charles, students operate close to 1000 vehicles with varying degrees of frequency. And while many of them park in off-the-street garages and use their ears only infrequently, many others drive to and fro throughout Cambridge and leave their vehicles in the streets overnight...
Among this year's Fellows will be Thomas W. Danner of North Carolina, Joseph A. DeVincentis of Somerville, Robert J. Hall of Franklin Park, Illinois, and Alexis E. Laster of El Monte, California...
Devee, whose home is at 876 Park Avenue, New York, will appear in court tomorrow to answer charges of disorderly conduct and firing a rifle without a permit. The case was continued from yesterday morning...
...Belmont Park last week, Citation's once-fevered ankle was ice cold and sound as a dollar. The trouble was that during his long wait on the shelf, Citation had developed a brood mare's belly, the neck of a bull and a rump like the back of a taxicab. Around the barn, the standing joke is that the "big horse" must have been eating from the same trough with Jake Hizar, the fat (264-lb.) foreman. To pare Citation down to racing weight, Ben Jones is giving him a double dose of work-one gallop...