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...speed up pedestrian movement on downtown street corners, Barnes set traffic lights to stop all automobiles dead for an interval and instructed people on foot to hustle across intersections, catty-cornered if they wished. The phenomenon was jeeringly christened "Barnes's dance." Barnes was unabashed. To win his critics over, he spoke at community meetings answered questions on a Thursday-night radio program, cruised through the streets for hours every week to watch traffic at firsthand...
...Vieira da Silva (Invisible Pedestrian) is a rising star of the geometrical school. She finds inspiration in the Moorish tiles of her native Portugal, which combine "space, color and musical mathematics...
Come off it, TIME ! . . . Your persistence in printing in full Ike's pedestrian and platitudinous prose and in depicting Governor Stevenson as a facetious, popeyed monster, if continued until Election Day, may well drive me into casting a Democratic ballot...
...contrast, Caroline Ivey's The Family is reassuring in its pedestrian normality. Novelist Ivey has turned to that familiar Southern fixture, a genteel family going gracefully to seed. Into the Olmstead household comes a Northern son-in-law, brilliant, restless and unhappy. Though he loves his wife, he cannot fit into her family or persuade her to break away from it. Why should they always be kissing and hugging, reminiscing about adolescent trivia, delighting in the vast disorder of their house, and still honoring the obsolete cult of the Southern Lady? Most of The Family is a quarrel...
...string of cars rolled into the driveway of the huge, brownish-grey Cairo mansion of Fuad Serag el Din, Egypt's most dangerous politician, one night last week. It was late, after curfew, and the last pedestrian had scurried to shelter. A soldier smartly togged in green hurried over, took a quick look at the curfew pass of Imam Bey, Egypt's political police chief, and snapped a salute. Trusted policemen jumped out of the other cars. Imam Bey rang the bell of the darkened house; a servant told him that Serag el Din was across the street...