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...faculty in the Department of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design grew extremely interested in the Harvard Square problem. Numerous student projects were devoted to the task of getting pedestrians across the street without making them run, and getting cars through the Square without forcing them to stall...
...acres of grass and white fences, five miles west of Lexington, is a rare gem among the bluegrass country's jeweled horse farms. The white, red-trimmed barns with dormer windows are quaint and comfortable looking on the outside, elegant and modern inside, with chrome handles on stall doors, chrome saddle racks, cork-brick floors and pine-paneled walls. Although 55 persons and 140 horses inhabit the farm, the place is so carefully kept that it gives an impression of never having been used. But Willow Run has nothing on Calumet's production line...
Adults themselves joined the feast. Women with Pekingese and men in Homburgs unabashedly lined up to get some chocolates. At one stall, a mustachioed army major ordered four Mars bars, gravely tucked them into a folded Sunday Times and marched away. One Londoner stormed: "It's good to have something off the ration, but I'm sure a lot of people would rather have a pound of butter." But on the great day few of Britain's kids would have agreed with...
...house and Frankie led a pleasant life. His stepmother and sister Nora were devoted to him. He swam in Lake Washington, tinkered with a $10 motorcycle which he could never make run, worked at a few after-school jobs. The most disagreeable of these was cleaning out a horse stall under a store on Rainier Street; Frankie was never much at manual work. His ambition, as he was achieving social success at Franklin High, was to go to college. Then father went stony broke...
Every now & then, Nye Bevan gets away from his desk and takes a stroll along the seaside with several old cronies. He will stop at a stall to eat winkles, go wild on the swings, and will not miss a single peep show of the "What the Butler Saw" species. During one of these strolls, recently, Bevan dropped a penny into a fortune-telling slot machine. The note which the machine returned declared: "Not another personality is as sparkling as yours, nor a personality with such inherent righteousness...