Word: kiosks
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Lining both sides of main arteries within a quarter-mile radius of the Kiosk, the meters will pay off at the rate of 12 minutes per penny, or a whole hour for a nickel. When the flag pops up in the glass meterhead at the end of an hour, the parker must either move to another meter or pay a $1 fine, with fines for subsequent offences depending upon what humor the judge...
...plan calls for four mushroom-shaped chapels, to be named the White, Blue, Rose and Yellow Chapels respectively, each with a "Slumber Room" for bodies lying in state. Also planned: a pyramidal structure lopped off at the top to provide a landing field for helicopters, a tall-spired kiosk to serve as a flower booth, and a two-story office building where the bereaved will be consulted, tombstones sold, and living space provided for a four-man night shift...
...boys, and the Yard buildings. He pictured himself coming back here, in a few years perhaps. Growing old while this place never changed. He pictured himself slightly paunchy, standing around the punchbowl at a reunion in fifteen years. Finally, Vag broke into Harvard Square and darted across to the kiosk. He noticed the new sign, "Subway to All Points." Well, that's where he was going...
Grade-school kids have been directing street traffic, two or three to a kiosk, with more safety and celerity than anyone remembered. Today the workers' unions took over so the kids could go home and get some sleep. The university students, who operate in spontaneous, well-disciplined cadres of ten, haven't had much sleep either. There were over 1,300 of them (many are now dead), and they still hold themselves responsible for law and order...
...cool for June, Vag thought, as he came out of the Harvard Square kiosk and put down his B-4 bag. He lighted a cigarette, picked up his bag and cautiously waited for an opening in the maze of automobiles...