Word: subway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past three years began to lift, revealing shiny new buildings, glistening overhead superhighways and a network of fine, wide roads that is already speeding up traffic considerably. Four superexpressways slash like sword scars through 62 miles of the once impenetrable capital, while 25 miles of new subway bore beneath the random, rickety scab of slums, pachinko parlors and noodle shops that is home to most of the city's population...
...fair, like the Carlsbad Caverns, the Little Bighorn battle site and the Newfane (Vt.) Inn, is worth a visit if you happen to be in the neighborhood. The locals who live within easy distance of Flushing Meadow by subway, train or highway keep going back there and to date have actually outnumbered tourists at the turnstiles. In any case, it takes at least several trips to sample the top attractions. Some of them are even worth the long wait in line...
...makers from a sick industry only five years ago into a healthy one today. The three major carbuilders this year expect to ship 700 cars v. an average of 425 cars per year since 1956. Last week the New York City Transit Authority tested twelve newly delivered stainless-steel subway cars made by Philadelphia's Budd Co., the first of 600 cars- at $114,700 each - that will be the largest subway order in history. The St. Louis Car division of General Steel Industries is busy building 162 air-conditioned aluminum cars for the New York Port Authority...
Harlem has seceded and declared itself a nation. Barricades made of abandoned autos, Fifth Avenue buses and Con Edison signs ("Dig We Must") have been erected on its borders. Frontier guards have been posted on the subway lines and the New York Central and New Haven railroads, and tolls are collected as the trains pass through Harlem. The "numbers" have been nationalized. Harlem's Congressman Lance Huggins, the first Prime Minister, announces a policy of no-surrender: "We have surrendered absolutely to our fate which is freedom. We had this secret space in us and now we have located...
Violence continued, too, on New York subways (TIME, June 12). About 25 Negro youths boarded a subway in the Washington Heights area. Led by a lad in a silk top hat, some of them turned on Pharmacist William Greene, 51, dragged him from his seat, beat him, took his $85 wrist watch and a wallet containing $100. Fifteen other passengers, terrified and outnumbered, watched helplessly. In Harlem, about 15 Negro teenagers, including several girls, found 57-year-old Actor Julian Zalewski alone in a subway car, picked him up, dropped him to the floor, rifled his pockets, took...