Word: subway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protests, the Pan Am got built, and by last week 91% of its space had been leased. The tenants were drawn there by the compelling fact that the building was on Manhattan's most convenient site-handy to the trains from Westchester and the Lexington Avenue subway, which would deposit employees right on the corporate doorstep. Among the tenants were U.S. corporations ranging from Aluminum to Vanadium, branch offices of Canadian, British, Italian, Mexican and Japanese companies. And, of course, Pan American World Airways, which has leased one-quarter...
...longer if they had engines?'' They could indeed. But to the 63 competitors from 23 nations who gathered in Junin, Argentina, for last week's world soaring championships, engines are just excess weight, and flying a conventional airplane is about as exciting as riding a subway to work. To the sailplaner, the good things in life are a cramped cockpit, a buoyant wing, the song of the wind, and unending miles...
...Pierre Léaud) it happens at a concert for young people. Just across the aisle he sees a lovely young thing (Marie-France Pisier) with big dark eyes and a flood of thick dark hair. When the concert is over he tries to follow her home, but the subway swallows her up. At the next concert she smiles absently in his direction-Antoine reels with bliss. At the next she actually speaks to him-Antoine has found his Cléopâtre. Colette, on the other hand, has merely found a nice polite boy who works...
...prosecutor in the court proceedings that followed. But to Casswell's chagrin, Loughan dismissed his confession as the kind of casual lie he enjoyed telling the police, claimed he spent the night of the murder sheltered from the blitz in London's Warren Street subway station-and produced five independent witnesses to prove it. "This is the most extraordinary case I've ever known," said the judge. "On the one hand a full confession, and on the other an unshakable alibi." The jury, equally puzzled, could not reach a verdict...
Actually, the expense is not as high as it might seem. Adds Obie: "The whole shebang-lot, tunnel, subway cars, the works-costs us only about $200 per parking space." Other downtown merchants, anticipating the Leonards' bringing customers painlessly into the area, have begun sprucing up their own store fronts to attract as many as they can. The Leonards don't mind, since they have first crack at riders of their private subway...