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Bicycles are both silent and deadly, a menace to pedestrians and a terror to drivers, yet they have proven to be one of the most efficient ways for getting around Harvard Square. And the motor scooter, once an object for the adventurous rich, has become quite democratic and, one might say, even common. But both of these vehicles have been snubbed in University policy, or perhaps merely buried beneath the more weighty matter of parking...
...recent statement, University Police chief Matthew Toohy urged bicycle owners to keep their bicycles "out of the area reserved for motor scooters" near Harvard Hall. But such a statement ignores the fact that neither bicycle owners nor scooter drivers have adequate parking facilities near Harvard Hall--or, for that matter, anywhere else...
Surrey Jitney. A new four-passenger convertible with three wheels was added to its U.S. line by Italy's Lambretta, the motor-scooter maker. Designed as a golf cart, estate jitney or city family's runabout, the "Surrey"' carries two in a front cab, two in a wicker rear seat with fold-back canvas roof. It has a 6-h.p. single-cylinder engine, goes 45 m.p.h., gets 75 miles per gallon. Price...
...years ago, tireless Inventor Link took up another hobby-deep-sea diving. Already, Link has co-developed a deep-sea diver's underwater scooter, a torpedo shaped like a hotel hallway's fire extinguisher that tows a diver along behind. Link is building a 91-ft. Diesel yacht specifically designed for undersea exploration with such gadgets as an underwater metal locater for hunting wrecks and buried treasure, so sensitive it picks up tin cans. Next year, Link hopes to use the boat to explore the sunken Roman seaport of Caesarea, off the coast of Israel...
Better than Brynner. For the ordinary Italian family the supermarket still has drawbacks. Unlike the small shops, the supermarkets do not give credit or make home deliveries. Most Italian housewives cannot afford imported foods, cannot take home much food on a motor scooter, and do not have a refrigerator to store the food at home. Nonetheless, shopkeepers located near supermarkets complain that their business is down a third. Even Communist housewives have ignored the Red complaint that "Rockefeller is strangling the food merchants...