Better to Receive?

Next week (when the University's students leave Cambridge for the Christmas holidays) the city's parking meters will refuse motorists' nickels and wish them "Merry Christmas" instead.

The City Council yesterday approved Police Chief Patrick F. Ready's suggestion that the meters' coin slots be blocked with holiday good wishes from Dec. 19 through 25. Ready denied that his move purposely coincided with the student exodus, and added that students remaining in Cambridge won't have to pay, either.