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...their senior year, nineteen-twelve continued their treeks to the athletic grounds, but they complained about it. "There is no reason why climate-harrassed throats shoul be further insulted by the steady cloud of dust and filth that rises from the pavement on the way to Soldiers' Field," they grumbled, and issued a plea for "the effective use of an oil-cart on the street near the field...
...street was littered with 50 slain Europeans and 150 wounded. The line of soldiers who had fired, pulled out the empty clips, reloaded and fired again, now stood speechless and dazed. Their steaming machine pistols lay on the pavement where they had dropped them. Four soldiers were sobbing, and the rest, said a spectator, looked "like boys who have been caught smoking behind the barn." In the hard-pressed morgue, the naked bodies were laid in rows, men and women intermingled. Lacking refrigeration, morgue attendants were limited to hosing down the corpses with cold water. In the middle...
...enough to give a motorcycle cop ulcers. On the slick asphalt pavement, the cut-down, exhaust-blatting hot rods stood poised for takeoff. Hunched over steering wheels, leather-masked drivers squinted through their goggles as the crowd shouted: "Stripe it, Chevy!" "Twist him off!" At the signal, the cars roared away-but not to the wail of a police siren. In Pomona, Calif., last week, the country's foremost hot-rodders were holding their Winternational Drag Racing championships before 39,000 cheering auto buffs...
Athens, like Jerusalem, is a city so rich in antiquity that an archaeologist-or anyone else-has only to dig to uncover treasures of a golden age gone by a few weeks ago, a crew of Athenian sewer diggers ripping up the pavement of Aeolou Street, in Athens' financial district, broke into a group of 30 ancient graves only six feet below street level. The find dated from about 500 B.C. Lifted reverently from the graves were many pyxides, the small, handsomely ornamented pottery jars in which women of the day kept cosmetics and other personal treasures. One pyxis...
...streets outside, pleasure reigned. Youths on motorcycles rattled along the littered avenues dragging steel street signs and pots and pans that threw up showers of sparks from the pavement. Boys and girls sang and waved palm fronds in triumph. And trucks, cars and delivery scooters jammed into central El Conde Street, their rapturous passengers pounding hoods, fenders and roofs in an endless two-long, three-short rhythm for "En-fin, Libertad! [At last, Liberty...