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...place of the turnstile after the man at the change booth has gone home for the night. On particularly bad nights, the iron monster will swallow your quarter and not allow you on the platform. But there is nothing in Boston that quite compares with the view from the 59th Street platform of the IND line in New York when the D train slides in marked "PEPE 125" in six-foot letters, three cars wide...
Lingering Hopes. The military assessment in Whitehall is that Smith has nine to twelve months at most before his regime is overwhelmed by a combined guerrilla war from surrounding African countries and a siege economy at home. "It's no longer the eleventh hour for Rhodesia but the 59th minute before Armageddon," said a British official in London. This view is based on the assumption that South Africa will not enter the war in force on the Rhodesian side, since such a move might trigger an Angola-scale Cuban intervention. At the moment, the British are resigned...
...lawsuits for years. No such trouble is expected at the U. Mass, site - a barren waterfront strip of filled land, once a city dump, that adjoins the decaying, half-deserted, scabrous Columbia Point housing project. Groundbreaking ceremonies are planned for May 29, which would have been J.F.K.'s 59th birthday...
...continuing saga of Jim Fitzsimmons's Harvard basketball career came to an official end yesterday with the announcement of the final balloting for the Pizza Hut Basketball Classic. Fitzsimmons finished way back at 59th place in the East, amassing 47,499 votes...
...double bill at Harvard Square, even with such a distinguished film as Streetcar, seems a lot like seeing a sensational former best seller as one more overstock stacked in mounds around a remainder bookstore. Last year the film seemed so alive, so intense, so involving. "Escaping down 59th Street to Central Park," I wrote, "rerunning the film in our minds, two of us followed a silent, twisted path around boulders and lifeless trees. The fog joined nearby buildings into solid walls; the isolation, the desolation, were nearly as great as the initial feelings engendered by the film." This week, with...