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Ethical Example. Unlike other police, C.D. men win points for making as few arrests as possible. To give errants every possible chance, a C.D. man first politely announces: "You are interfering with the free movement of vehicular and pedestrian traffic. Please move." (Pause.) "Will you move?" Step 2: the resister is told that his act violates Section 406 of the Pennsylvania penal code and "amounts to disorderly conduct." Once more he is asked, "Will you move?" Step 3: "You are now under arrest. Will you walk to the emergency patrol wagon?" Step 4: "Do you want to be carried...
...grouped the various activities of the center: banks, stores, restaurants, offices, schools, housing. Care must be taken not to create monotonous concourses of commerce where people tend to become lost in the endless repetition of store fronts. Nodes of activity must be created. Scale must change from wide busy pedestrian malls to intimate little walkways. Some of these pedestrian ways should be open to the sun, some enclosed; some should have surroundings which are high and spacious, some low and confining...
When completed, the underpass will handle all cars that now use Cambridge St. in front of Mem. Hall. Part of Kirkland St. behind Memorial Hall will be closed off, allowing Harvard to build a pedestrian mall linking the Yard with Littauer and the Law School...
...going to buy a Chevrolet?") Only last June Damon came out with Bankcardchek, an imaginative new system combining revolving credit, traveler's checks and a checking account. The first to applaud Damon's promotion was Predecessor Brace, who said: "He is far from the orthodox, pedestrian type of banker. He is a nonroutine thinker...
While in the play Arthur Hill and Uta Hagen had a relatively equal impact on the audience, Burton as Martha's husband George takes over completely. The only possible complaint about his performance is that it makes the others look excessively pedestrian by contrast...