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Cambridge's workmen didn't snub the rumors or try to stifle them. Forthrightly and honestly, they blasted open their kiosk island and laid it before the public gaze. Thundering pneumatic drills proved the strength of their concrete. Sledge hammers exposed cross-section after cross-section, showing it pure and well-mixed to the last pebble. Today, disinterested students can stand before a saw-horse guard rail and examine the dismembered rubble: mute testimony to the honesty and conviction of a few simple workmen...
Last fall the workmen dumped a few tons of concrete into the Square's car-jammed read bed to alleviate traffic conditions. They patty-caked it into a rotund island around the kiosk, and Harvard Square became a circle. Results were immediate and beneficial. Harrassed drivers took one look at the obstacle course, and thenceforth drove to work via Fresh Pond Parkway or Wellesley Hills. The traffic problem was solved...
...City of Cambridge tried to erase a bungle with pneumatic drills last night as a crew of workmen toiled feverishly until 10 p.m. in order to put the subway kleak on the same footing it was last fall...
Last week a crew of workmen in downtown Rawlins dug up an old whisky barrel containing human bones. Whose were they? Somebody remembered that Dr. Lillian Heath, the girl who had received the top of Big Nose's skull, was still alive and still had her memento. It took only a few minutes to prove that the whisky barrel contained the bandit's remains: the lower section of the skull fitted the memento perfectly. The discoverers of Big Nose George's bones proudly offered them to the Carbon County museum...
...chairman of C.E.D., Folsom will campaign for an ever-expanding U.S. economy. Explained he last week: "We want to find a way to continue to raise real wages, to increase American productivity and make more of these products available to workmen for their wages...