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Many news stories, like good detective work, are the result of considerable pavement pounding. When the editors decided to do this week's National Affairs story about New York City's large and growing colony of Puerto Ricans, they were confronted with a mass of published material that was thoroughly contradictory. James Bell, our New York City reporter, was assigned to find out what the score really was. Says Bell...
...streetcar clanged south on State Street almost as if they were guided by an evil hand. Both got to a rail turnoff near 63rd Street at the same instant. A flagman waved a warning at the streetcar-a switch had been opened to detour trolley traffic around the flooded pavement ahead. But No. 7078 did not stop...
Trapped Inside. Within seconds, streams of blazing gasoline were running down the tracks and flaming across the pavement to the gutters. Towering sheets of fire burst up around the gushing truck; they puffed into the shattered front of the streetcar almost before the dazed and frightened passengers had recovered from the shock of the collision. Screaming, cursing, they piled toward the rear of the car, clotted there in a clawing, trampling mass...
...signorine looked good to the infantrymen, and the infantrymen looked good to the signorine. "Men!" cried one lusty widow as she "smoothed the dress down over her body and stepped out of her house onto the pavement." In their own way, the British were equally enthusiastic : "This ol' street may niff a bit, but it don't smell as bad as . . . those unburied dead rottin' out there in the sun . . . Some of these judies aren't bad lookers." Before the week was out, many of the company had made themselves right at home. They dandled bambini...
...work of tearing up the pavement began last week. The tracks running toward Arlington will continue in use, while the tracks running towards Littauer, now unused, will be covered over. The job of paving will probably take city workmen less than a week...