Word: sidewalkers
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...Soviet soldier cuts an ominous figure in his red-starred uniform and high black boots. Often columns of them, with the iron tops of their boots clicking rhythmically against the sidewalk, pass by. They keep their gaze straight ahead, and their faces deadpanned. Occasionally, some 19 year-old in the platoon sneaks a glance at the customers in a sidewalk cafe to catch their reaction. Most of the patrons feign unconcern...
Chance of a Lifetime. In Detroit, Edward Jefferson was acquitted after he told the judge how he happened to knock a policeman to the sidewalk: "I saw a big bee land just above the officer's collar on the back of his neck and I didn't want him to get stung, so I hit the bee as hard as I could...
...testimony continued-part of it played scratchily from long, tape-recorded interviews with addicts-spectators got an astonishing picture of a strange new city: New York as it appears to a "junkie." It is a city where "pushers" peddle their wares almost as casually as sidewalk balloon vendors, where children sniff heroin even in classrooms, where an innocent-looking drugstore or cafeteria may be an addicts' hangout...
After the polls closed, first results flickered across luminous screens along the Champs Elysées. Parisians sat in their sidewalk cafés, totting up figures. Radical Premier Henri Queuille stayed up until long past midnight, finally went to bed saying: "As for me, I'm not worried." He was re-elected in his own district...
...Phelps's audience grew, police arrived, cleared the crowded sidewalk of both the earnest and the merely curious. Phelps was "invited" into a police car and driven away from the scene; John Muir suspended him for the rest of the week...