Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Purple Dye. Student reinforcements poured into the wide plaza outside the station. To the bleat of whistles, the students trotted forward in their snakedancing columns, chanting, "Oppose the Viet Nam war!" and "Down with the Security Pact!" Many were stained by the purple dye which had been mixed with the water in fire hoses used to fight them off in an earlier attack on Japan's Defense Headquarters. Though students had also tried to assault the Diet building and the U.S. embassy, Shinjuku had been chosen as the major target because it is the departure point for many...
...structure (cost: $3,500,000) is indeed a dramatic addition to Syracuse's downtown Community Plaza. Its four main galleries loom theatrically over the concrete-paved concourse. Inside, visitors pass through a spacious 35-ft.-high central court, then climb to the galleries on a swirling, circular stairway. They can promenade from one gallery to the next without descending, thanks to glass-curtained, connecting bridges that overlook both court and outdoor plaza. Pei believes that such bridges give a "change of pace" between exhibition rooms. "Besides," he adds, "in a museum your eyes need a rest...
...Late. Stratford's airfield proved too small for the big jets. Murphy arranged to switch Humphrey and his entourage to smaller Electras. Word came that 150 New Left students at Trinity College planned to disrupt a noon appearance in Hartford's Constitution Plaza. Calls went out for 200 Yale and Mount Holyoke students to get between Humphrey and the hecklers. The Connecticut General Life Insurance Co., hosts for the housewives' chat, did not have enough mikes or telephones. Murphy arranged to have the equipment installed...
...zooming down through the fog to land a mere 40 minutes late. Though his talk ran longer than planned, Bailey, Murphy and Senator Abraham Ribicoff gradually pushed him back on schedule, and the Connecticut foray turned into a success. The Constitution Plaza hecklers were gentle, Waterbury's workers turned out in droves, and Humphrey finally flew to New York in high humor. Murphy, relieved but exhausted, boarded a plane for San Diego to handle this week's set of traps...
After dinner, a trip to the pyramids of Teotihuacan, 40 minutes outside the city, to see the son et lumiére spectacle drops the spectator nearly 2,000 years back in time. A bit off the beaten track for tourists is the Plaza Garibaldi, where wandering mariachi bands play, adding the vibrancy of guitars to the blare of trumpets...