Word: sidewalkers
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...loud noise probably causes heart flutter, headaches and constriction of the blood vessels-not to mention partial deafness. But noise can also be an expression of exuberance, and there are no more exuberant people than the Brazilians. Citizens of Rio de Janeiro and Sāo Paulo hold polite sidewalk conversations by shouting at each other above the city noises. Do they mind? Quite the contrary. "Sāo Paulo is noisier than here," says Housewife Itacy Buarque de Macedo, "but our noise is more simpatico...
...plans for a Faculty housing project on the site, but opposition from neighborhood residents, many of them Harvard professors, killed the plans. The residents, led by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, said the housing would take up the last open space in the area, and cause street traffic and sidewalk congestion...
...trial Tuesday, the arresting officer testified that the six had stood together to block the sidewalk and had made 50 people walk into the street. He also said that the striking drivers and helpers did not want support from the students...
...were passing out leaflets in front of the Boston plant and talking to the picketing strikers and prospective customers in front of the first-floor store. They were arrested about 12:30 p.m. and charged with "blocking free foot pass age" on the Berkeley St. sidewalk...
...July, Spender had arrived in Prague to make contact with Czech hippies who misspelled peace slogans on the sidewalk: MOR I AQCUINT MY DOG LESS I LIK MY MAN. The kindly Spender could not resist subverting their English to read: "The better I know my dog the more I love...