Word: subway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ground Zero), the city would appear to have been struck by a giant fist. Within that radius would be the lofty Empire State Building, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Building; the teeming cliff dwellings of Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town; Klein's department store; 14th Street's subway complex; a labyrinth of gas mains, water lines, telephone cables, electric wires; 55 elementary schools, high schools and trade schools; 17 universities and private schools; twelve of the city's hospitals...
...York politics and his trying job. He has suffered from nervous exhaustion and heart trouble, has often yearned to pursue his particular hobby-following the trail of the old Spanish conquistadors in Central and South America.* He has also alienated backers and constituents. He opposed doubling the subway fare to 10?, before the election, and afterwards, came out for it. He announced that he would not think of running for a second term, and changed his mind at the last minute...
...hand-picked group of 70 foreign students was hard at work in M.I.T. summer classes last week, largely because of an idea that came to a couple of ex-G.I.s in the Boston subway three years...
...York City last week, television went underground. After filming sections of the Ford Theater's production of Subway Express in the I.R.T. subway between Chambers Street and Pennsylvania Station, Producer Winston O'Keefe moved nearly 100 actors, technicians and camera crewmen up to The Bronx for a telecast from an isolated subway car in the I.R.T. Jerome Avenue yard...
...City of Cambridge tried to erase a bungle with pneumatic drills last night as a crew of workmen toiled feverishly until 10 p.m. in order to put the subway kleak on the same footing it was last fall...