Word: laddering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least two spots along the main route that are a claustrophobe's nightmare. The first is crossing Massachusetts Avenue on the way to the Houses. The tunnel height suddenly becomes three feet thanks to the shallowness of the Rapid Transit below; the traveler must hoist himself up a ladder and onto a rickety wooden cart, pulling himself across by a rope. Below rumbles the Rapid Transit, and above, the Massachusetts Avenue traffic...
...building at Fifth and Walnut Streets begins flashing a bright neon-lighted toast: "HERE'S GOOD LUCK TO YOU." One rainy night last week, its intermittent flash disclosed an odd, yet strangely familiar spectacle. A dark-haired youth was edging his way up a fire-escape ladder high on the 19-story Kentucky Hotel. The climber reached the top, took a quick step and balanced erect on a narrow ledge at the roof level-just as a 19-year-old soldier who called himself Louis Turini had balanced on a narrow ledge of Boston's Touraine Hotel...
...jump. The people up here tell me not to. What am I to do?" For two hours and 35 minutes, the nerve-racking struggle went on. But finally, after the priest and the policeman promised that he would not be jailed, the youth climbed slowly back down the ladder and slipped through the 19th-floor window...
...week stay was apparently enough to convince at least some of the fish that the pool was their home stream. They swam back from the sea and up Puget Sound, guided by their mysterious homing instinct, then struggled through Government fish ladders into Lake Union. When they reached their alma mater, they made a sharp left turn and climbed a ladder into the pool...
...play has been written by Paul Osborn in close collaboration with the author, and the story of a man who struggles against the demands of a success-ladder society has been reproduced in clear and poignant terms...