Word: malling
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Like a Mild Cold. Yet there were times when the Senate seemed to be considering nothing more momentous than a proposal to plant petunias on the Capitol mall. Rarely were more than a few dozen Senators on hand to take part in the debate. Others strolled in occasionally from the cloakrooms to interrupt the proceedings with speeches about dam projects in their home states. In the presiding officer's chair, New York Democrat Robert F. Kennedy leafed idly through a sheaf of clippings about his recent raft trip down the Yampa and Green rivers in Colorado and Utah. After...
...University buildings--the new million-dollar Center for International Relations and the $10 million Undergraduate Science Center--are planned for the immediate vicinity of the mall. There has been some speculation that one or both of the buildings might extend onto the closed portion of Kirkland St., but Wiggins said last night that he doubted that either of the structures would protrude into the roadway...
...University has asked the City for permission to create a huge pedestrian mall next to Memorial Hall by closing part of Kirkland St. and building a 400-foot underpass beneath Cambridge St. The $2 million project would mean anyone could walk from the Yard to the Law School without crossing a street...
...idea for the underpass--and consequently the pedestrian mall--seems to have come from the University, however. Wiggins said in his letter to Curry that "preliminary investigation indicates that there are no engineering problems involved, and informal talks with various Cambridge City department heads lead us to believe that this plan, if carried out, would be of the greatest benefit to the City...
...Confederate" parade moved up the mall, hundreds of white-collar workers crowded the capitol windows. For a moment they watched silently. Then, as the marchers began chanting. "Go home, niggers," a huge shout of approval roared from the building...