Word: boulevards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heineman's new expressway is the Chicago River, which passes within half a block of the station. Commandeering a pair of sightseeing cruisers, the Wendella and the Sunliner, Heineman last week launched a diesel-powered gondola service which takes commuters to North Michigan Boulevard in seven minutes. The cruisers run every 15 minutes during rush hours, operate on hourly schedules the rest of the day, charge 25? a trip-about one-third the fare in a taxi...
Halftracks and armored cars pounded shopfronts and apartments with 37-mm. cannon. From behind a barricaded bar on the Boulevard Guillemin, a red-faced European screamed: "Remember this day! This is the day of our victory or death...
...Japanese-owned department store created quite a splash. Within 15 minutes after Seibu of Los Angeles unlocked its door, 5,000 shoppers were inside, women were fainting, policemen had to bar all entrances to slow down the rush and traffic was backed up for four blocks along Wilshire Boulevard. By day's end Seibu's clerks had been buffeted by 40,000 Angelenos, who bought $25,000 worth of merchandise ranging from obi cloth theater coats to men's silk suits tailored in Japan to Ivy League specifications...
Saul Bass works in an old stucco house on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard. He quit his job at an ad agency to set up his own shop there in 1955. Madison Avenue advertising agencies now study Saul Bass film credits in search of new techniques for TV commercials. At 41, Bass is easily the highest-priced man in his field. He is also the creator of the new color-drop Kleenex box and the new, wasp-waisted Wesson Oil bottle. He never repeats him self. "If you don't risk everything every time out." he says, "your creative...
...Oran, S.A.O. men disguised as French soldiers parked two cars with military markings on a crowded boulevard in the Moslem quarter. The cars, loaded with dynamite and 105-mm. shells, exploded in the late afternoon, littering the street with 76 dead and wounded Moslems. Moslems mourned their dead all night long, and the wailing was interrupted only at dawn-by three other heavy charges of plastic bombs in the Moslem quarter...