Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...central Philadelphia this week, workmen were finishing two towering modern office buildings that will substantially complete one of the nation's biggest chunks of center-city reconstruction in 30 years?a $120 million complex of transit and bus terminals, hotels, shops, restaurants, offices, underground concourses, sunken gardens and pedestrian malls called Penn Center. Near by an underground garage was taking shape in a block-square crater, and a stone's throw down Benjamin Franklin Parkway a crane was hoisting marble panels onto the top floors of a new circular apartment building...
...supporters, however, did not favor any one particular make so much as they favored individuality in their cars. Seven different makes were represented among ten cars; a sleek Mercedes Benz sporting Dartmouth and Wellesley decals, a black Corvair with two red stripes, a Volkswagen bus from South Carolina decked out like a traveling hotel with curtains and bar, a Nissen De Luxe buried in Goldwater and Ted Kennedy stickers...
...second conversation seem like a five or six minute heartwarming chat. His watchful eye and instant charm combine to woo that special type of person who might actually be swayed by the flattery of special attention. He will pass up a stream of people gushing from a crowded bus and go twenty or thirty feet away to shake hands and have a few words with some lonely figure watching him shyly from afar...
...extra cost to all tenants: access to the free-form swimming pool carved out of the cliff is $100 a year per family, garage parking is $25 a month, limousine service from Horizon House to Manhattan executive suites is $15 a week and Horizon House's own school bus takes kids to nearby schools for $2.50 a week...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats plan to bus students to the airport to welcome the candidate, whose itinerary also includes a speech at a Boston Arena rally...