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...problem by allowing parking on its property--more specifically, in the Eliot-Winthrop-Kirkland triangle. But two steps can help a portion of the now harried driving population: removal of the chain across the entrance to the triangle and the opening of at least one side of the House driveway for all-night parking...
...their magnificent behavior throughout the crisis, but actually the Colonel himself and his team of 10 officers and 17 men served as the main rallying point for the crushed and stunned natives. (One of Hyland's staff, a young officer who drove an army truck up a blazing driveway where Mydans was shooting pictures, leaped out, tossed some cans of gasoline in the truck and backed out furiously, shouting at Mydans, "looks like you found a story." He turned out to be former TIME circulation department worker Mike Sednaoui...
...officers' mess, waiting for dessert and coffee. There wasn't any warning-the floor just pushed up under us, and great chunks of wall and ceiling began to crash about us. We staggered for doors and windows, knocking into each other and falling to the floor. The driveway before the building buckled up before me as I bounced over it, while concrete slabs thudded down from above. We flung ourselves on the compound lawn, but the earth shook so violently that some of us were jerked upright and bounced about like popcorn...
...black 1941 Cadillac, with a master sergeant at the wheel, is waiting for him at the door. It rolls out the Embassy's tree-lined driveway past two sentry boxes at which two starched G.I.s come to attention; in the street the car is picked up by an escort of white MP jeeps. On the five-minute ride to work, MacArthur passes a sandlot where Japanese kids play baseball, a number of government buildings (some destroyed), the Sakurada Gate of the Imperial Palace, the green algae-covered Imperial moat. 'For the general, the traffic lights are always green...
Edgar Rice Burroughs, biographer of Tarzan, drove his Buick convertible out of the driveway of his home in Tarzana, Calif., was thereupon struck by another Buick convertible which had just been struck by yet another Buick convertible. The autos were injured; 72-year-old Burroughs was not scratched...