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If you could see through the wall of the Brattle, there are some 200 people seated in parallel rows facing the far wall. Three people are in the back row, closest to the street. On the far wall, they are projecting "Rebel Without a Cause."

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Two American Actors | 10/15/1981 | See Source »

And the day's biggest fumble took place in the stands. The Cornell students have a thing for passing coeds through the crowd. All went well as many an unwilling female travelled up and then down the stands on her back, until the passers, like the passers on the field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Just Fumblin' Around | 10/13/1981 | See Source »

Traffic controls, such as speed limits or one-way streets, have only a limited effect. They do not change the fact that, seen through the windshield, the typical residential street looks like an inviting, concrete race track. Rows of parked cars on both sides become walls that seem to protect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Trying to Tame the Automobile | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

THE SQUAD OF eight Angels marched out of the Red Line car in the Harvard Square station. The leader blew his whistle and they lined up in four rows of two. With their conception of military precision, they marched out of the station and into the street. One on-looker...

Author: By Martin B. Schwimmer, | Title: Guarding Against the Angels | 10/9/1981 | See Source »

Soweto, the sprawling black township which houses most of Johannesburg's Blacks, suffers from the world's highest crime rate. "Most of Soweto is not fit for humans," declares Fanyana Mazibuko, a banned former Soweto school teacher. It is a dismal place. The government-operated tourist bus drives past rows...

Author: By James Altschul, | Title: South Africa: No Sand Left in the Hour Glass | 10/2/1981 | See Source »

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