Word: pedestrian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...central Philadelphia this week, workmen were finishing two towering modern office buildings that will substantially complete one of the nation's biggest chunks of center-city reconstruction in 30 years?a $120 million complex of transit and bus terminals, hotels, shops, restaurants, offices, underground concourses, sunken gardens and pedestrian malls called Penn Center. Near by an underground garage was taking shape in a block-square crater, and a stone's throw down Benjamin Franklin Parkway a crane was hoisting marble panels onto the top floors of a new circular apartment building...
...shortly after his death. With it was an undated letter in which Hammarskjöld called the writings "a sort of white book concerning my negotiations with myself-and with God." Skillfully translated by W. H. Auden, with the help of a Swedish linguist, Markings is in turn earnest, pedestrian, paradoxical and noble. The first entry was written when Hammarskjöld was a college student of 20; the last, a few days before his plane crashed in Northern Rhodesia...
...projected bridge would join the second and third floors of the new building with the Coop's main store. The bridge's second floor level would be used for pedestrian traffic and the third level for movement of material...
Sheldon Diets '41 and the Harvard Cooperative Society are snarling at each other again--this time over the pedestrian bridge that the Coop wants to construct between its main building and its proposed textbook annex on Palmer...
Accordingly, the MDC will also construct a pedestrian overpass near Weeks Bridge "to make the crossing of Memorial Drive safer," and also "beautify" the riverbank between River St. and Western...