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Architect Le Corbusier, who drives his 20-year-old Fiat at a nervous, bucking 15 m.p.h., treats traffic in Chandigarh like a dangerous beast. He has seven different types of roads criss-crossing his dream city like a waffle grid. There will be separate roads for children, for bicycles, pedestrians and cars. All fast, cross-city arteries are sunk 14 feet below ground level to hide the traffic and reduce noise, will have bridges for pedestrians to cross safely. Says Le Corbusier, peering happily through his thick spectacles: "The system will restore to the pedestrian the dignity and peace...
...acre Penn Center, they will erect two slablike, 20-story buildings, the first to cost $15 million.* The buildings will flank two sides of a pedestrian walk with two levels of shops, one on the street floor and the other underground...
...future octogenarians. "312" has a number of articles which combine the two aims admirably, such as the one on Eliot House which in a smooth, choicely worded style captures the House's spirit as well as naming names and infinitum. In general, though, its prose is little more than pedestrian and, in the lead article's case, downright inadequate and dull; neither atmosphere nor details come through well...
Both Bachelder and Fawcett had previously testified that they remembered no old lady or any other pedestrian passing near them as they walked towards the Square. Both said they had noted a group of about 12 boys standing in front of the Coach Grille, and had been challenged, "Where do you think you're going?" Immediately after this, Bachelder said he had felt the first blow fall on the right side of his head...
When John P. Moodie's automobile struck and killed Pedestrian Robert J. McDonell in Detroit last June, McDonell's widow Faye was left with four small children to feed, and a fifth on the way. Last week Detroit Traffic Judge John D. Watts (see cut) offered Moodie a choice of punishments: go to jail for "four or five years," or help support the McDonell children for five years. Moodie, a $120-a-week tool-factory worker with four children of his own to support, agreed to pay the widow $80 a month...