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...Department of Buildings and Grounds will plant the first of three oak trees this week. The oaks replace elms taken down recently by the Department after they became afflicted with Dutch Elm disease...
Then, on May 13, 1952, a policeman asked two successive ice cream vendors to move from their Elm Street locations, and Yalies objected violently. Undergraduates hurled jeers, pillows, and water bombs at the policeman, and then swarmed out into the street to begin a large-scale riot. Police seemed to have the affair under control, and the mob was dispersing when a fire truck and riot squad made their ill-timed arrival and turned on the mob jets of water and billy clubs. Several officers drew revolvers...
Follow route 1 (North Main Street) to the middle of Providence, then take Waterman Street that branches off to the left. At Wayland Square, bear left around the circle to Angel Street and follow Elm Grove Avenue (first right) to the Stadium. List of events is on page...
Three days before he was nominated, Adlai Stevenson went to earth at the William McCormick Blair home on Chicago's most aristocratic lane, elm-shrouded Astor Street. What happened after that was enough to make Gold Coast matrons stare as they strolled by with their neatly clipped poodles and haughty Chihuahuas...
...begin. ¶ Democratic Nominee Adlai Stevenson, emerging from the Astor Street house where he had waited out the convention's decision. For three days a modern journalistic army had bivouacked in the quiet, aristocratic street, setting up a battery of portable telephones and mobile TV transmitters, festooning the elm trees with dangling cables, lights, microphones and reflectors (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The result, for the TV audience at least, was well worth it: the contrasting shadows and harsh glare of mobile television lights produced the dramatic background effects of a first-rate documentary...