Word: boulevards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trumpets blared and drums rattled as the proud procession moved down Leopoldville's broad Boulevard Albert I to celebrate the Congo's second anniversary of independence. President Joseph Kasavubu and Premier Cyrille Adoula took the salute from the black soldiers of the new Garde Républicaine, who were decked out in powder-blue uniforms with black lace trimming and red feathered hats. Along the route, 20,000 Congolese added their cheers to the festive occasion...
Looming over Ankara's busy Ataturk Boulevard like an Anatolian mountain peak is the massive, honey-colored stone structure that houses Turkey's Parliament...
...everybody is in the mood to wait. While the soccer fans rioted and tourists twisted, 1,500 jobless workers marching along Ataturk Boulevard in a procession clashed with police and army units. Dozens were arrested. The fracas emphasized anew the urgency of the workers' plea, emblazoned on their banners: "Give us fields and we will sow, give us jobs and we will work, show us the way and we will march...
...city's broad Boulevard Joffre. six Moslems were shot dead as police and soldiers stood aloof. Brazenly, the S.A.O. bombed the heavily guarded 14th-floor office of Oran's new prefect. The day's toll: no dead throughout Algeria (104 of them Moslems), 140 wounded...
...Need Ponderation." Organized in 1893 to handle the installation of electric trolley cars in Le Havre, Thomson-Houston soon became primarily a holding company with a small staff quartered on Paris' Boulevard Haussmann. In 1952 its directors, looking ahead, decided that the future belonged to producing companies...