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...months, investigators logged the place and hour of each adult pedestrian fatality in Manhattan. Then, reported Dr. William Haddon Jr., a team went there at the same hour the next day and interviewed the first four pedestrians who happened along. The researchers went so far as to collect breath samples from them. The victims presumably differed somehow from their neighbors who crossed the same streets safely at the same hours...
More surprising but less illuminating were some random facts: most pedestrian deaths occurred on straight streets with no unusual obstructions, and in good weather (though in rain and poor visibility, the toll increased). Except for the Bowery, heavily congested business districts had fewer fatalities than residential areas with lighter traffic...
...shadows have lengthened over the early history of the Republic, the homes and birthplaces of not only the great, but the near great and even the pedestrian Presidents have taken on the quality of national shrines (see color). The realization that such buildings, no matter how modest, are a living part of the national heritage has often come too late. Of the 89 structures known as having important associations with the 33 Presidents, 19 have disappeared, 46 are still in private ownership, and 39 are open to the public...
...workmanlike performances, and Soprano Irene Dalis was impressive as Brangaene. Conductor Karl Boehm led his orchestra through a methodical reading. As for the decor, with the world's best to choose from, the Met had again picked the second-rate. The sets by German Designer Teo Otto were pedestrian and confusing: starkly realistic castle turrets and ramparts set alongside fanciful, gold-leafed trees and stylized, sawtooth waves...
...DOWNTOWN center is planned in Houston. Named after the late oil tycoon Hugh Roy Cullen, the twelve-acre center will be privately financed, have a 500-room hotel and three office buildings with a total of 1,650,000 sq. ft. of office space, all connected by air-conditioned pedestrian malls at second-story level...