Minuteman Record and Tape (30 Boylston St.) has a good selection at pretty good prices, with the added bonus that they have tape cassettes and whatnot.

Briggs and Briggs (1270 Mass Ave.) has a severely limited record stock, but you can buy useful musical instruments like Marine Band harmonicas, jaw harps, and baritone kazoos.

Restaurants

You can eat a lot here in Cambridge. And the fare at the Union is notably unsatisfying, so at some point you will probably stray drooling into the Square and environs, rubbing your money. There are many cateries around, all of them U. S.-government inspected 100 per cent disease free. In roughly ascending order of price some of them are:

Tommy's Lunch (60 Mt. Auburn St.) is a good place, sporting two pinball machines, a loud jukebox, and a good counter crew. The food is standard diner fare.

Elsie's (75a Mt. Auburn St.) is more flamboyant, and specializes in feeding you huge amounts of delicatessen sandwiches. Hazen's (just next door) is stronger on the basic hamburgers and French fries. It is also not as densely crowded as Elsie's during the peak dinner hours.

Hayes-Bickford's; at Mass Ave. and Holyoke St., is a cafeteria which has thrived for years on the fact that it stayed open longer than almost anyplace else. A very bad book called Love with a Harvard Accent once said that the Bick was "where the Cambridge bohemians gathered." You need pay this no attention, however, because the same book had its insipid hero stopping into Leavitt and Peirce for a cup of coffee, which is categorically impossible because Leavitt and Peirce only sells tobacco and games. But the Bick is open late.

Two close companion pieces to the Bick are the Waldorf and the Red Caboose. I didn't tell you the location because both are closed: the Red Caboose is gone forever, leaving only an empty place in my heart. It went broke because it was on jinx corner (Winthrop St. and Mass Ave.). The Waldorf is closed temporarily "to open again with a more modern restaurant." Fat chance.

Brigham's (Mass Ave. by the Coop) sells hundreds of ice cream cones for 30 cents. They're pretty good, and so are the cones at Bailey's (Brattle St. near the Booksmith).

Zum Zum (9 Bratile St.) has strings of sausage hanging from its ceiling to symbolize its specialty. The sausages on the strings, however, are plastic. You may, at first, find this offensive. But if you train yourself to look down, you'll find ZZ not so bad. The sausages are inexpensive, and the dark beer is really good.

Bartley's (Mass Ave. by the Harvard Bookstore) explores the hamburger medium as far as it will go. Starting from the basic Bun'n Burger it escalates to the Muenster Cheeseburger, the Super Pizzaburger, the Hawaii Pineapple Burger, the Texas Chiliburger, and so on. If you keep your orders orthodox, you will find it very good.

Somewhat more expensive than the aforementioned are our final group. The Wursthaus (4 Boylston St.) has German American food and crowded atmosphere. The Toga (Mass Ave. by Briggs and Briggs) has sandwiches and above, of basic American variety. Buddy's Sirloin Pit (Brattle St. across from the Theatre) is just what the name implies. Charley's Kitchen (10 Eliot St.) plays the Red Sox games on the radio and has good sandwiches. Cronin's (114 Mt. Auburn St.) is also good.

What, are you still not full?

Well, for Chinese food, there the Hong Kong (1236 Mass Ave.) which has reasonable prices and is open quite late, and Young and Yee (37 Church St.).

Movie Theaters

Movies in Cambridge are much cheaper than they are in Boston, where we are treated to the spectacle of the Cheri charging $4.00 to see Woodstock. The Cambridge films tend to be a little less current than those shown in the plush plastic palaces in the other place.

They are all good. The best is the Orson Welles (1001 Mass Ave.) which is run by freaks. Get one of their calendars, because they have week-long festivals, at least one of which during the summer will be of some director or genre which you love. The others are the Harvard Sq. (in the Square), the Brattle Sq. (in Brattle Sq.) and the Central Sq. (in Central Sq.). They all show a lot of good movies.

There are also some film programs sponsored by Harvard. Ivy Films, at Carpenter Center, will show movies by directors like Chaplin, yon Stroheim, and Rossellini at 7 and 9 p. m. on Thursdays during the Summer term. Film Studies is doing a series on great American directors, also at Carpenter Center, at 7 p. m. on Sundays. And there will be a series of classic films shown at Emerson 105 at 7 p. m. on Fridays.

There are lots of other things going on. Summerthing concerts in Harvard Stadium are the most obvious. Ike and Tina Turner, B. B. King (tonight), and other heavies. They only cost $2.00.

You can't lose.