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Last night my husband, a professor in the city, was driving out to use the automatic teller at his bank, the Cambridge Trust Company. Harvard Square branch, when he noticed a slow leak in his tire had rendered it nearly flat. Pulling into a Central Square service station, he was informed that use of the air pump cost 50 cents. Upon checking his pockets, he discovered that he had no money, not indeed any change, though he did have a money order for $20 which he was on his way to deposit. The attendant would not allow him to till...
...Harvard men's swimming team entered the U.S. Military Academy's Olympic Natatonum Saturday with the same strategy the U.S. Army hoped would work in the rice saddles of Southeast Asia winning with superior tire power. The Crimson though had the muscle to finish what it started edging the Cadets...
...voice behind us. Turning, I saw a big old man, looked a little like Allen Ginsberg, standing up at the top of the rocks. "I'm tellin' ya, that's him," the kid hissed. "You come any closer an' I'll--" I saw the kid had a big tire chain slung through a loop in his pants...
...face had been turning purpler and purpler, and before I had time to ask the man about his new techniques Lenny had whipped out his tire chain and started swinging it his jaw tightening. "My dad--my dad told me about people like...
...just told you. I gave up toys. They're worthless," he snapped, gesturing at the elephant, whose trunk still clutched Lenny's tire chain. "It's kids like that that bug me--kids who never believed in me in the first place. That's how I got obliterated or forced out of the toy business anyway. All the kids were yapping about some guy who left toys in their stockings, so the unbelieving parents decided to leave presents on their own. The demand for the real article dropped to zero--some means of production are better if they...