"One hundred and nine Case [Institute of Technology] students crowded into a 1950 Plymouth 4-door sedan to set what may be a world's record for this intercollegiate event. It happened today on campus in front of Tomlinson Hall." --photo caption as published in the Cleveland Press, April 17, 1959. The year 1959 saw a rash of short-lived fads involving college students trying to cram large numbers of people into telephone booths, cars, and other things.