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Bowie and one committee member fled to the Harvard Square MBTA island and entered a taxi cab, where demonstrators engulfed and trapped them for 20 minutes. Williamson then escorted Bowie down Church St. away from the crowd, but the two men were followed closely by ten of the demonstrators...

Author: By M. DAVID Landau, | Title: Bowie Charges Students For CFIA Disruption | 4/29/1970 | See Source »

Bowie and Joseph E. Johnson '27, vice-chairman of the Visiting Committee and President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, then fled to the Harvard Square MBTA island and entered a taxi cab, where demonstrators engulfed and trapped them for 20 minutes...

Author: By M. DAVID Landau, | Title: CFIA Demonstration Face Bowie's Charge Of Rights Violation | 4/27/1970 | See Source »

...general happiness with life and the MBTA was broken the second time-also the final time-I went out to Shawmut. Shawmut

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Red, Blue, Green, Orange-A Subway Odyssey | 4/11/1970 | See Source »

...this luxury vehicle was far from pleasant. The train was so crowded that I had to stand in the midst of a tight-packed group of people, and there was nothing to hold on to. So whenever the train made any irregular movements, which are regular on the MBTA, I ended up bumping into a 60-year-old woman in front of me. Each time I did so, she turned around and glared at me as if I were doing it with intent to smash her against the pole she was holding...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Red, Blue, Green, Orange-A Subway Odyssey | 4/11/1970 | See Source »

...when I got to Park again, and I celebrated the completion of nine-and-a-half hours with a quick pizza and coke at Kwik Snak, the Waldorf of the MBTA system. I was really exhausted, but I never considered bagging it; I just kept riding. On one car, off, change to another, off, and so on. You get so that you just sit there and hope you never get to your destination because it means getting up to board another car or train. I thought about my hurried trips out to the airport in days gone by-the train...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Red, Blue, Green, Orange-A Subway Odyssey | 4/11/1970 | See Source »

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