Word: sidewalk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...architectural rendering provided by the Coop is grossly distorted, making reasonable judgments impossible. To wit, Palmer Street is made to appear broader and lighter than would actually be the case. In the Coop rendering, Palmer Street, curb to curb, is shown as 5.5 times the width of the West sidewalk, preserving present building and curb lines. Actually, by measure, Palmer Street is 3.3 times the sidewalk width (205/54 inches. The effect of this distortion is to make the street appear to be about 25 feet, curb to curb, instead of its actual 17 feet...
...under the Drive. That we could not hear anything of the traffic overhead was probably due to the thickness of the Tunnel roof--fourteen inches of reinforced concrete. In front of Dunster House the Tunnel is so close to the surface that the top of its roof is the sidewalk. No snow, you may have noticed, ever accumulates on the walk in front of Dunster House...
Curious crowds gathered around the Kiosk, on the Mass. Ave. traffic island opposite the demonstrators, and on the sidewalk where the picketing was occurring. The first trouble came at about 1:25 p.m. when some people standing on the traffic island began chanting "We Want Marx" and "McNamara for President...
Later in the afternoon, however, another group of about 10 spectators began to form a human wall across the sidewalk to prevent the marchers from continuing in their elipse. After rejecting the request of Mary S. Gillmor '64, a demonstration organizer, to leave the sidewalk, the group was dispersed by a policeman...
...name. Syria was a charnel house. In the midland city of Hama, mothers wailed over the bodies of dead sons, the famed Sultan Mosque lay in ruins, and the corpse of one rebel leader, riddled with 50 bullets, was contemptuously dumped by soldiers from an open jeep onto the sidewalk. The bloody-handed Baath (Renaissance) Party was again engaged in its favorite pastime: killing...