Word: sidewalkers
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...dictator in his right mind would live in Washington's historic Blair-Lee House for a minute. Its severe, four-story facade rises almost flush with the sidewalk on broad, busy Pennsylvania Avenue. Its two entrances are only ten steps above street level. Unless the blinds are drawn, passers-by can peer up into its shutter-framed, white-curtained windows. But if Harry Truman had any misgivings for his safety when he moved into the old residence two years ago while the White House was being made over, he gave no sign of it. Only the Secret Servicemen worried...
...present slanted situation began in 1912 when the sidewalk between Gore and Standish Halls was first built. The underlying land was a marsh at that time, and once the heavy sidewalk was laid, it immediately began to settle on a lopsided angle...
...last week, Berlin's Western sector had five months' supply of coal on hand and a six months' supply of grain and cereals. Along the Kurfürstendamm, against the grey bomb rubble, sidewalk cafes with flower-decked tables and shops with smart new chromium & glass fronts looked valiantly hopeful. But by & large, Berlin's economy was not healthy. It still had 294,000 jobless, a whopping 600 million-mark annual budgetary deficit. West Berlin was getting little aid from the Bonn government...
...Yugoslav crowd spread quickly through Gorizia's shops, cafes, bars and restaurants, filled their shopping bags with food, wine, stockings, towels, lipsticks and medical supplies. Yugoslav housewives exhausted the supply of brooms in a matter of minutes. In a sidewalk cafe, one elderly Yugoslav said: "This is the first real coffee I have had in three years. I must drink it slowly, or it will poison...
...Paris. "Sidewalk vendors, chanting the French equivalent of 'whaddyuh read?' (which consists of reeling off in a rapid, blurry, plaintive monotone the names of various publications, including London dailies and the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune) have little trouble disposing of their wares. There's an increase in reader interest in all newspapers and periodicals since the outbreak of the Korean war. And our dealers are reporting sellouts and heavy demands for TIME from Copenhagen to Istanbul...