Word: subway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people's urge to be exhibitionist," said Olivier Coquelin, founder of one of Manhattan's first discothèques, who holds 51% of Cheetah's $100,000 tether along with 49% owned by Borden Stevenson, middle son of Adlai. Coquelin knew his clientele. A rush-hour subway crowd pushed, shoved, stalked and stared at some 200 models dressed in the latest mod fashions. Men in flow ered shirts and wide ties squired girls wearing everything from Pucci prints and Paco Rabanne disks to weirdies from London's Carnaby Street and vinyl suits from Manhattan...
Athos, at 32, is an academic oddity who entered Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration from Gen eral Motors Institute without an under graduate degree, and he dates his own undedicated concern from "the day 1 stepped off the subway and came up into Harvard Square." At U.S.C., Athos has devised a course called "Organizational Behavior," now required of all business-administration majors, which raises ethical and psychological issues, and has made Athos what one colleague calls "the hottest commodity ever to hit our business school...
...plan for rapid transit expansion within the Boston metropolitan area. One of the key recommendations is expected to be the extension of the Harvard Square line into North Cambridge, probably to Porter Square and then out to Route 2. And one possible route for this extension would take the subway directly beneath Radcliffe Yard and precariously close to the Loeb Drama Center...
...prospect is not pleasing: the new subway tunnel represents a threat of permanent vibration, and while construction is underway, the Yard would be a monumental mess. MBTA engineers would probably use a cut-over technique of construction through the Yard; that is, they would dig down from the surface, build their tunnel, and then relandscape the surface when the tunnel is completed...
...Bunting (on the record) has been both realistic and constructive. Mrs. Bunting has not pledged implaccable opposition to the roue, if the MBTA does indeed select it. What she has said is that she wants to be convinced that this is the best possible path for the subway...