Word: station
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fidel Castro has changed arrangements for his trip to Boston, reportedly for security reasons. The Cuban revolutionary leader had previously planned to fly here, but will now arrive by train at South Station at 2:30 p.m. Saturday...
...Blue Fairy in little more than a year captured Chicago youngsters without a struggle; now it has recognition as one of the top children's programs of 1958 and the further distinction of being the only program on an independent station on the list...
Giuseppe Cardinal Sarto, Patriarch of Venice, summoned to Rome to help elect a new Pope after the death of Pope Leo XIII, left his desk strewn with papers, borrowed enough money for a ticket, and started for the station. His flock blocked the path. "Bless us once more," they cried. "Come back soon." Cardinal Sarto stretched out his arms. "Dead or alive," he said, "I shall come back...
...special train with the coat of arms of Pius X was made up at Vatican City station. A group of 23 Vatican officials, plus government bigwigs accompanied the Pope's body on its journey. In Venice, the body of St. Pius X, enclosed in a glass coffin, was borne to a navy barge rowed to the rhythm of a drum. Followed by a procession of gondolas, the barge headed up the Grand Canal to St. Mark's, where a choir of 2,000 children and almost everyone in Venice waited...
...addition, Sullivan remarked that the two buildings offered by Cambridge--the Wellington and Kelley schools--are both within five minutes' walk from the nearest MTA station. Since most of the students at the junior college will come from "economically underprivileged groups," he explained, availability of public transportation will be an important factor in choosing a site...