Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard and M.I.T. have admitted limited culpability; now they each must decide what to do in solving the problem. A first step came last Spring when the two schools fathered the Cambridge Corporation, an independent agency designed to aid future City housing projects. But more must be done, and direct action by the two Cambridge giants is called...
Smith took the snap from center, straightened up, and fired instantly to Neil Hurley for the 12-yard score. Smith never moved a step back from his position over the center during the play...
...tightly-knit organization to unravel. To keep it going and to keep himself politically alive McCormack would have to find another office. Boston elects a Mayor in 1968 and McCormack could conceivably try for that if he wanted to challenge Mayor John F. Collins or if Collins wanted to step down...
Taking things a step farther, President Johnson last year won approval for a $90 million program to put high-speed (160 m.p.h.) trains-much like those of Japan's famed Tokaido line-into service between Boston and Washington, the nation's most people-packed corridor. For a little farther in the future, Detroit auto men are working on a system called Teletrans, in which punch cards would guide 45-m.p.h. private capsules along a track inside a tube. There are also plans for automated superhighways on which card-steered cars would whiz from Detroit to Washington in four...
...small drop from one step to the next makes descending difficult. Distinguished professors whose names appear in even the obscurest libraries manage it best. Wearing rounded hats which have been out of shape as long as out of style, they move their legs carefully and slowly. As foot touches step, however, they seem to lose control and a slight jerk moves up the whole body. Teiresias must have moved like this. Inside Widener these men have favorite chairs from which to watch favorite books. When they walk out the latticed door they are not so much leaving the Library...