Word: subway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vietnamese Prime Minister emerged from his drab Paris hotel one day last week, and took the subway across town. At the Palais d'Orsay he went up to his new government offices (a second-floor hotel room), where he started dictating memoranda to his executive' secretary (a part-time animated-cartoon artist). All day the Prime Minister greeted diplomats, newspapermen and Vietnamese well-wishers in courtly turmoil, now and then lapsing into deep meditation and silence...
While making the investment decisions and voting the shares, Cabot rarely sees a security. "We only see them," he says, "when a man comes in to give some." Even then, the donor is hustled over to the New England Trust Co.--perhaps by subway or taxi depending upon the size of the gift...
Later, when the two men met in a Senate Office Building subway car (see cut), they did not speak...
...Though far from being strangers to the problem of juvenile delinquency, citizens of New York City last week had reason to lose patience. One day, when rain ruined a school outing, hundreds of pupils swarmed onto subway trains and proceeded to run amok. They terrorized passengers, smashed 237 light bulbs, pulled emergency cords, ripped up seats, pummeled a guard, roughed up a station elevator operator. Snapped Magistrate Charles F. Murphy as he set an exceptional $10.000 bail on one of the ringleaders: "City officials must stop coddling offenders...
Away from the public's eye the college's social life is closely tied with that of Boston, so closely in fact that undergraduates find that the big city's night clubs, theatres, and restaurants are only a subway token away when the college entertainment isn't up to snuff. The effect of this metropolitan competition is to improve the quality of the college productions and give them an air of professionalism which a small college show in a small community never achieves...