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...TRIAL OF DOCTOR ADAMS (245 pp.)-Sybille Bedford-Simon & Schuster...
...subway along Massachusetts Ave. from Harvard Square to Porter Square is particularly welcome, and especially timely. The most practical plan calls for the line to continue on above ground from Porter Square to West Cambridge, and from there two branches would go on to Weston and Bedford. Both routes would intersect Route 128, the main highway circling Boston...
Service to Bedford would in effect, provide an alternative air terminal facility at the Air Force's Hanscom Field. In the event that Logan Airport is fogged in, liners are currently diverted to Hartford-Springfield, Nantucket, or even New York fields, and cannot use the nearby Bedford installation. Rapid transit along the Boston and Maine trackage would aid travellers by making a second jet-age facility available for commerical airliners...
Also significant is the prospect of relieving congestion if busses and trolleys disappear and the Square ceases to be an all-day parking place for subway users. The improvement of service to outlying areas (currently there is only one train a day in each direction to Bedford) will greatly relieve the floods of automobiles that daily inundates Boston and Cambridge. The large parking and terminal facilities planned for the West Cambridge junction should also go a long way toward alleviating the Cambridge parking problem...
...freestyle--won by Burgess (Y); 2. Southall (H); 3. Bedford (Y). Time--4:41.1. 200-yd. breaststroke--won by Bary (Y); 2. Saari (Y); 3. Parsons (H). Time--2:39.3. 400-yd. freestyle relay--won by Harvard (Finlayson, Zentgraf, Eisenbrey, Kaufmann). Time--3:28.2 (new Harvard Freshman record, old record of 3:37.7 set in 1959 by these same swimmers...