Word: subway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hell, Terkin finds, is like the Moscow subway, "only lower." It is run by a pampered army of bureaucrats, who spend their days playing dominoes and yelling at the inmates to keep out of their way. A model of Communist planning, the nether world has menus but no food, steam baths without steam, hotels without beds. There is even a magazine editor who "sweats all over" as he "puts in quotes and takes them out again and reads each page from top to bottom and from bottom to top." Says one Big Brotherly ghost: "You don't have...
...most often the sounds belong uniquely to their maker, Roland Kirk, who meshes a thrumming beat, a fer tile imagination and an impish humor to achieve an exciting union of the pa gan and the modern spirit - as if Pan were suddenly found piping merrily in a rush-hour subway...
...royal palace at Riyadh. An air-conditioned big league baseball stadium is going up in Houston, and $487,000 worth of cooling gear is being installed in the White House. Last week Carrier Corp., the industry's leader, landed an order to cool 180 new Chicago subway cars, and the Hartford Gas Co., which sells metered cooling and heating to office buildings, started operating the world's largest air conditioner-4,500 tons of cooling capacity...
...horseshoe-pitching stake outside. Wardrobes of German clothes are run up from blankets and uniforms dyed in coffee or ink; whole wallets full of identity papers are forged; money, emergency rations, maps are scrounged. The tunnel is a marvel of Swiss Family Robinson ingenuity, with electric lights, a little subway running on wooden tracks, a bellows-operated ventilation system. And as the first of the 76 escapers starts through the tunnel, the thongs of suspense are only beginning to tighten...
...remained true to its leaders' vision of a pastoral "Holy Ireland." The Irish spend only one-fifth as much yearly ($8,000,000) for defense as New Yorkers pay each year for garbage collection. They do not support a single superhighway, nightclub, parking meter, strip joint or subway. The suicide rate is Europe's lowest. Crimes of any kind are few and getting fewer-although the authorities admit that the nation's commonest transgression, larceny of pedal cycles, bears watching...