Word: sidewalkers
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...Rome, the first green leaves last week peeped along the Lungotevere, and flowers sprouted behind sidewalk tables on the Via Veneto. Spring had come, and the ladies could not be far behind. As early as 9 a.m., tight-skirted hustlers prowl the square before Rome's modernistic railway station; by noon, they are ensconced on the benches of the Pincio Garden, casting provocative glances over the tops of sunglasses at passersby; by dinnertime, they begin congregating near Rome's biggest supermarket alongside Olympic Village and beside the vast ruins of the Baths of Caracalla...
...elderly shopkeeper in Elisabethville ignored-or perhaps did not hear-a Congolese soldier's order to get off the sidewalk in front of the heavily guarded National Bank of Katanga last week. Angrily, the soldier hoisted his rifle and shot him in the back. As the man lay groaning on the pavement, Congolese troops shoved away a doctor who tried to save his life...
...Memphis. He plays and sings the songs he wrote himself-songs like Madison Street Rag and Walk Right In. Half a century ago, he toured the South with a medicine show, but the last time he played downtown in Memphis, he went to jail. He was giving a sidewalk concert for handouts when "the policeman took me by the seat of my britches and put me in his car." A $26 fine was proof enough for Gus Cannon that for an old man there was less than a living in music...
...still afternoon, but across the street from the Garden, the fight mob began to gather. It was always like that in the old days, when there were fights worth going to and fighters worth talking about. Then the mob gathered on Jacobs Beach, the sidewalk at 49th and Broadway. Now they sit at grey Formica tables in the Garden Cafeteria gulping matzo-ball soup, or at Jack Dempsey's bar sipping Rob Roys. Promoter Jack Solomon was in from London to see the fight. Lester Collins, ten years a manager and now a California businessman flew to New York...
...group of miners pouring money and gems into Dom João's open hands-plus a second flag-bearer team, more dancers, and the percussion band. Around the whole 2,300-member group is a thick hemp rope carried by costumed men who keep the cheering sidewalk crowds...