Word: boulevards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...broad, cobblestone boulevard stands a cluster of trim modern apartments; at the other rises a glass-and-steel office building. In between lies "the Raper"-Europe's greatest and gaudiest fleshpot. The Reeperbahn of Hamburg's Sankt Pauli district strings more sin along its garishly lighted main drag and crooked side streets than ten Tijuanas or 16 Sohos...
Haussmannian. More than the stopgap panaceas and two-dimensional thinking of much urban renewal, the plan is Haussmannian in scope and architectural in dimension. The council would turn Pennsylvania Avenue into a ceremonial boulevard with distinctive brick paving, bordered by double or triple rows of graceful shade trees, and three-level sidewalks to take the rubbernecking out of parade watching. Constitution Avenue, which now makes a messy, scissorslike intersection with Pennsylvania, would neatly dive beneath...
...heat that is already approaching 90° with 90% humidity. With a Vietnamese plainclothes bodyguard, he climbs into the back seat of a Checker Marathon sedan. The car rolls past barbed-wire stanchions, stops 15 minutes later in front of the ugly U.S. Embassy building at 39 Ham Nghi Boulevard. There, barricades block sidewalk passersby, while barbed wire funnels visitors past South Vietnamese soldiers into a lobby guarded by U.S. Marines...
...majority of the Lauderdale gang came from the Big Ten and other Midwestern schools, especially state universities. Ohio State topped them all, as about 320 of its sweatshirt lined Atlantic Boulevard. The closest contenders were Florida State, the University of Florida, Wisconsin -- and of course, Miami. Georgia Tech, Notre Dame, University of Cincinnati, and Bowling Green University led the rest of the field...
Drinking becomes the main release. False ID's are extremely easy to come by, and the Elbo Room, Student Prince and other bars along Atlantic Boulevard in Lauderdale are the most popular places all day and all night, except perhaps from 6 a.m. to noon. Time magazine was probably not far off in its estimate that each boy would consume an average of nine cans of beer a day, and each girl three. (The slogan, according to Time: "When in doubt, drink and shout...