Word: subway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paris' Samedi Soir called it le drame politico-passlonnel. The principal characters: Subway Conductor Jean Laffargue, 41, his wife Yvonne, 37, and Rene ("Little Napoleon") Desvillettes, 47, mayor of the deep-Red Communist suburb of Champigny. All three were loyal Communists and diligent party workers. Trouble started when the politico got mixed up with the passionnel...
After vacation the college came back to find that some enterprising Harvard Square proprietors were campaigning for elimination of the Subway Kiosk. But when the business men discovered that having to walk from Central Square would drive away customers, the razing program went up in smoke...
...wave began in Barcelona (TIME, March 19) and Pamplona (TIME, May 21). Last week Madrid followed with a mass demonstration, its first since the civil war. Chain letters and clandestine pamphlets touched off 300,000 to 400,000 workers on a buyers' strike. They stayed away from buses, subways, shops, bars and cafes, did without newspapers. Like long lines of ants the workers patiently walked to plant and factory in silence so that police would not be able to call them demonstrators. They avoided subway entries and streetcar stations where blue-shirted Falange strong-arm men were waiting...
...Well, upstairs on the fourth floor there are two unfinished rooms. The former students who lived in the house made them the scene of their artistic efforts. It's much higher than the subway type of art, but it's got one motif--naked women...
...committee of a half-dozen active men were established, the Graduate School of Design would provide a continual source of new ideas and encouragement. Moreover the committee could work closely with the Cambridge Planning Board to improve several alum areas near Harvard and could push projects like moving the subway yards to North Cambridge. Certainly the extent of Harvard's property and of its construction program makes such a committee essential...