Word: subway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week the 1,000-member subway-supervisors union plans to meet and decide what action to take if there is no progress on contract negotiations with New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The union may strike or show its grievance with a slowdown. Even if it chooses the latter course, says Union Chief Frank Tedesco, the troubles for the city's 4,500,000 daily subway riders would "make the Long Island Rail Road tie-up look like minor-'league activity...
...very idea of nominating a self-proclaimed "unknown quantity" such as Agnew hardly helped. Neither did the tasteless opulence of Miami Beach or the well-coiffured, well-dressed appearance of the delegates. "They're nice people," said one big-city Northern Senator, "but they've just never ridden a subway." The comment was not altogether fair. It is such people who work long and hard for their political parties; affluence, or the lack of it, is not necessarily an index of social conscience. Still, the contrast between the people in the Convention Hall and the nation's grubbier problems could...
...height of Mexico City's morning rush hour, raining glass from office windows into the streets, rupturing gas and water lines, stalling streetcars, and causing damage in the millions of dollars. At least three people died in the quake, and workers building the city's new subway system deep underground fled for their lives. Though many skyscrapers were badly damaged, the athletics stadium complex for the forthcoming Olympic Games came through unscathed. It was the most severe shock in Mexico City since 1957, when over 30 people were killed...
Erotic Whimsy. What he fails to mention are the careful preparations that come before. He sketches incessantly, in the subway and even on the airplane -as he did last month when he popped across the Atlantic to pick up an honorary degree from Harvard. Much of his inspiration comes from music. "Right now I'm in a Bach mood," he reports. "Tomorrow it could be Stockhausen. I'm very fond of the Beatles, too." Then, after the first spontaneous burst of creation, come the months-and sometimes years-of revision. "A line," says Miró, "has to breathe...
...groups in terms of the distance one would travel to see them in action. Thus, Dylan is worth a trip to anywhere on the East Coast, the Stones are good for 300 miles, Jeff Beck 220 (i.e. to New York), and Loving Spoonful about as far as 40 cent subway ride will take one. We were uncertain about the status of the Who but since we were going the 45 miles to Providence to hear them we hoped it would be worth...