Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There would also probably be some problems in building the plaza and underground garage on Church St., for they would have to be built on parcels of land owned by both the University and the Cambridge Community Services...
...windows to make sure they were shut in accordance with instructions is sued days before. From rooftops, from dark corners, behind Corinthian columns, Secret Service men with guns and electronic gadgetry and TV scanners gazed at the growing throngs. They guarded the speaker's stand in the east plaza of the Capitol, where armor plate braced the floor and 1½-in.-thick bullet proof glass formed a waist-high railing...
...noon, Thursday, pandemonium prevailed on the campus. An angry crowd jammed the plaza, filled the steps of Sproul Hall and was pressing towards the barricaded doors, and I'm certain that we were 30 seconds short of a riot. The sight of the armed cops was infuriating the students, many of whom nearly hysterical. The tension was indescribable, and all that was needed was a single provocation...
...most recent U.S. urban building, the rule has been every man for himself. With no overall plan, the architect has too often stopped his concern at the property line. Occasionally, as a civic gesture, a building will draw back to leave space for a prestige plaza or a fountain or two. But the impression is still that of a battle of towers, much like Renaissance Bologna's, where each noble family vied to build a taller battlement from which to frown and, on occasion, bombard one another...
Havana's Plaza de la Revolucion was alive with masses of Cubans obediently chanting slogans and cheering their bearded leader. It was the sixth anniversary of Fidel Castro's rise to power -presumably a time for triumphant muscle flexing. But this year's military parade was whittled to 30 minutes, instead of an hour, and Castro's speech was almost subdued. "Parades," said he, "are very expensive, and it is natural that in concluding the Year of the Economy we save expenses...