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Donald C. Moulton, assistant vice-president for government and community affairs, announced yesterday that effective today the University will not grant any new permits to sidewalk vendors on Forbes Plaza in front of Holyoke Center...
...jump is a decision, a controlled movement. If I were in control. I would have stayed in my other life, watching the vagabonds move in and around my path. But in my free-fall, I have no control. I may eventually hit the sidewalk. I may spin here in mid air forever, continually fascinated by my four limbs, unattached to any points around me. I may suddenly swoop back up and find myself breathless on the top of the building. Not knowing my fate, I ponder my origin: Did I jump or did I fall? Am I in control...
...city's pueblos jovenes (slums), who have been badly hurt by soaring price rises on staples, went on a binge of looting. Along Union Street, center of the department-store district, looters made off with radios, TV sets and vacuum cleaners. One man set up a sidewalk stand a scant 300 yards from the Presidential Palace, where he tried to hawk his wares at bargain prices...
Night arrives and the Young Eternal Souls from St. Louis replace Professor George Wald at the microphone. Two kids spray-paint a sidewalk red and blue. It is too dark to read their message. The Commons is sodded with cans, lunchbags, styrofoam cups and leaflets. The trees are strung with red, white and blue lights, with some green ones over by Park Street...
Later that night, several of us left our hotel and walked the streets of Havana. It was about four in the morning. We noticed a Cuban couple strolling calmly down a dimly lit sidewalk. We passed them to their right--they smiled and waved. As we walked further into the housing area, we called out to two people who were leaning out a window enjoying the early morning air. They smiled at us and pointed across the street. On the wide sidewalk, there were three round tables and several wooden chairs. A group of Cubans sat together listening...