Word: towing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...River to the Business School lot. Whether they are visiting a friend, packing to leave, or grabbing a meal, students often return to find an empty space, their car now in the possession of Pat's. (Burns says, however, that under the agreement between Harvard and Pat's, the tow truck should drop the car without charge if a student comes out to claim his car before the truck has pulled away...
...left notes on the cars, but after the third day, we had to tow them away." He adds that the University had to tow more than 50 cars during the snow emergency between midnight and 8 a.m. on February 10 because "we couldn't get the tow trucks at any other time...
...England in 1892 by a young woman named Florence Boit. Until 1948 she remained anonymous and was referred to only as "the young lady from Pau." It seems that Florence arrived in Wellesley, Mass. for a summer sojourn at the home of Arthur Hunnewell with her golf clubs in tow, having brought them over from Pau, France, where she had been wintering. She was soon informed to her great chagrin that the game of golf had never been played in New England before, much less even heard...
...learned a lesson in Scranton, or will they all come running the next time a big book is up for sale? That time is here, and the book is Richard Nixon's memoirs, to be published in May by Grosset & Dunlap. The Times Syndicate also has Nixon in tow; and reports that it has signed some 50 publications in the U.S. and abroad. So far, none have backed out as a result of the Haldeman fiasco. Though security precautions are said to be even tighter than for, the Haldeman book, New York magazine last week disclosed Nixon...
...L.B.J. Ranch was a little too far away for regular visits, so Lyndon Johnson used to chopper off to the camp with three or four friends in tow. He also found the retreat an ideal locale for some Viet Nam War jawboning with skeptics like Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson. Recalls L.B.J. Aide Jack Valenti: "It was a frosty meeting, but they parted friends. There's something about Camp David that makes you feel softer...