Word: subway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advisability and cost of building a new house in the neighborhood of Rockefeller Center (estimated cost: $20 million), no one around the Met can really bear the thought of giving up the beautiful old house with its rich tradition. One considerable advantage of the present spot: service by two subway lines, three bus lines. Even though glossy limousines are still lined up on subscription nights, Board Chairman George A. Sloan says, "We're not really a carriage-trade house any more. Much of our audience today comes from Brooklyn and The Bronx. And that means the subways...
...opera house, Rudi Bing is in his plain, southwest-corner office on the ground floor every morning by 10. He walks to work down Seventh Avenue from his apartment in fashionable Essex House, on the edge of Central Park. He travels home for dinner by subway, returns to the Met and seldom gets home again before midnight. The strain of twelve-hour days has already made Bing look a little more drawn and grey than when he took over last summer...
Extension of the subway to North Cambridge, more rigid police enforcement of existing parking regulations, and a parking study by the University were among the recommendations for alleviating the parking problem proposed by the Cambridge Planning Board's Harvard Square Parking Study, released yesterday...
...wise. In the face of the barrages of entertainment fired at them by advertisers, U.S. children have not only retained their sanity and their digestions but kept a deadly critical sense. Millions of them listen to radio and watch television with the same blase attitude with which New York subway riders flip through the sensations recounted in the tabloids. In the last analysis, both the advertiser and the entertainer are at their mercy-with their little fingers still gummy from the last helping of breakfast food, they can turn a button and bring industrial empires tumbling down...
...plugged drains on Shephard and Boylston Streets and Massachusetts Avenue created puddies from 12 to 18 inches deep in some places. One such puddle on Massachusetts Avenue forced water to flow down into the Harvard Square subway station...