Word: subway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Documentary Evidence. Gouré also spotted what he thinks are signs of retractable, blastproof doors to station entrances of the 43-mile-long Moscow subway, whose circular, concrete tunnels could house one million people-20% of the city's population. (Leningrad has about eight miles of subway, and the first stage of the Kiev subway has six miles of track.) But mostly, Gouré's evidence for a thoroughly planned Russian civil defense effort is the torrent of pamphlets, charts and decrees issued to the public through DOSAAF (All-Union Voluntary Society for the Promotion of the Army...
...longer must the working girl, determinedly fashionable even while fighting for her spike-heeled balance on the subway, change at the office to the good old loafers stashed in her desk. No more must suburban housewives, in town for a day's shopping and a night's entertainment, lug their evening shoes (concealed in paper bags) around with them until dinner and high-heel time. Says Designer David Evins, a pioneer of the walking shoe: "Women want to get away from the 4-in. needle heel. It has an artificial look. Today there is a feeling of desiring...
...patriot who, under the nickname ''El Campesino" (The Peasant), fought savagely in the Spanish Civil War as a Loyalist division commander. He fled to Russia when Franco won, but his outspoken bluntness was unwelcome in the Soviet Union. He was put to work digging the Moscow subway, was jailed twice and escaped to France in 1948, reporting bitterly that of 6,000 "Spanish comrades'' in Russia, nearly 5,000 had been killed. His disgust with Communism did not diminish his hatred of Franco...
...Campesino, the man who survived everything from the battle of Madrid to the building of the Moscow subway, it did not seem likely that he had really reached the end of his career as a freelance warrior...
Manhattanites, gregarious types that they are, can rent a subway if they have use for it (500 members of the New York Telephone Co.'s Retired Club chartered a five-car subway for a trip to Coney Island this week). Jean's Silversmiths supplies fine silver place settings, to match the renter's own, at about $50 for a dozen six-piece settings, or fine crystal goblets at $24 a dozen (but the renter may have to pay $240 for the whole set if one goblet breaks). The New York Circulating Library of Paintings rents...