Word: subway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Philadelphia last month, seven Negro boys dragged a white girl off a subway platform and tried to rape her on the tracks before they were driven off by a U.S. sailor who went to her rescue...
...clerks went on strike against two big Manhattan department stores. Strikes were called against a construction firm at Cape Kennedy, towboat owners in Pittsburgh, and three machine-tool plants in Detroit. New York was threatened by another newspaper strike, and the Transport Workers Union threatened to strike the Philadelphia subway system if it continued to use dogs to patrol the subways instead of hiring more guards...
This may be true (although O'Brien, who is said to be thinking of entering Massachusetts politics, would probably be available to anyone who could scrape up the subway fare into Boston), and it would certainly benefit Harvard and the other Boston-area universities participating in the Institute to have O'Brien accessible to professors and students. But there would be no gain for the scholarly community as a whole; someone would be certain to extract the information from O'Brien whether there was an Institute...
Bored one night on the subway, and reflecting on my ill-spent youth, I noticed a passel of pre-paid post cards dangling overhead. Wayne School in Chicago offered me--free and with no obligation, a card said--a booklet that would tell me how I could complete my high school education at home. I sent in the card...
...City Council Monday asked representatives form the University and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library to meet with Cambridge officials to discuss locating the Library on the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority's Bennett St. subway yards...