Word: sidewalkers
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...before attack than we," he says, "they have planned for putting up such signs during a long-range alert. The shelters are there, but they aren't posted. During my trip, I asked a man in Stalingrad about a vented block of unmarked concrete sticking out of the sidewalk. 'Ah,' he said with a shrug, 'it's a shelter exit,' as if to say-so what's unusual about that...
...among other things, the shriek of children scooting in the streets, the clamor of crowded living; the neighborhood butcher's, where the housewife can leave her door key, and the corner delicatessen that stays open past midnight; the locksmith and the cobbler, and the florist's potted sidewalk garden; the front-stoop squads with time and chitchat on their hands; the old man gazing like a mute portrait from the frame of his second-story window; and the strangely silent Sunday morning, sweet with the smell of freshly washed streets...
...Bath of Paint. On streets like the Bernauerstrasse, where the frontier literally ends at the sidewalk, windows of the drab apartment houses on the Communist side have been bricked up and doors bolted or barred from the basement level to the sixth floor. This is to stop the jumpers who have been leaping to freedom via the nets of willing West Berlin firemen on the street below. The trick is to toss a note into the street ("Urgent! Call the fire department! I am coming down in ten minutes!"), then pray that the nets arrive before the Communist Volkspolizei...
...toned Cadillac purred to a stop on a sleazy block of Manhattan's West 45th Street. Out climbed a distinguished-looking, grey-haired man. He negotiated the litter-strewn sidewalk, threaded his way through a scattering of post-teen wenches in black leather jackets and boys with duck-tailed haircuts. For a moment, he stared dubiously at a hole-in-the-wall honky-tonk called the Peppermint Lounge, then rushed back to the waiting limousine burbling, "This is the place!" Quickly, two men and three women got out and gingerly followed their scout past the long, noisy bar into...
Cardullo's lawyer rebutted that the distance should be measured from the middle of the street, not from the store door along the sidewalk. The prospective proprietor himself, in a CRIMSON interview, protested that "the way we measured the distance, it came out over 500 feet...