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Back in 1917 the city of Philadelphia set to work to build a subway line down Locust Street, which runs through Philadelphia's main business district. The resulting excavations kept large parts of Locust Street in a turmoil until work on the project was interrupted in 1918 by World War I shortages. After the war, digging started again, and the tunnel was finally finished in 1933 at a cost of $6,000,000. But what with the Depression and World War II, the city just never got around to putting the Locust Street subway into operation...
About two years ago, however, the city government went to work on Locust Street again, spending another $2,500,000 in the process. Last week the first trains finally ran through the Locust Street tunnel (providing a high-speed connection between the business district and Camden, N.J. via the Delaware River Bridge). But nobody had any such hopes for another ancient and expensive Philadelphia subway hole in the ground, the Arch Street tunnel, used only as a storage place for rivets and old rails since its excavation...
Hunt Tilford Dickinson, of New York City and Locust Valley, L.I., whose principal occupation is to take care of his investments, told TIME he had nothing to say about his old roommate. But all of them remember Rabbit with affection. Although every one of them is now a Republican, one says flatly that he will vote for him, and some of the others are wavering...
...well-stocked shops of the Kurfurstendamm, or loafed in its sidewalk cafes over mountainous sundaes and cool drinks. The Busch Circus, set up in tents nearby, advertised a "Swedish Tarzan" and eight ferocious tigers. Along Onkel Tom Strasse* in the U.S. sector, Berliners strolled through a fragrant snowfall of locust blossoms. Plump, healthy-looking children cavorted atop West Berlin's "Mountain of Tears," a huge pile of rubble...
After two months of battling a locust plague in Iran with a task force of eight airplanes, nine pilots, a technical adviser and ten tons of a new insecticide called "Aldrin," the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported last week that the Point Four funds had been well spent. Among the 50,000 infested acres that were saved from destruction: part of Iran's poppy fields, a prime source of heroin...