Word: subway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WASHINGTON--The Department of Transportation yesterday announced grants amounting to more than $128 million to aid the construction of a subway extension of Red Line from Harvard extension of the Line from Harvard Square to Alewife Parkway...
Allocations in the grants, which are being directed through the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, include $66 million to help build a subway tunndel form Harvard Square to Porter Square. An additional $62 million will help fund tunnel work between Harvard Square and Davis Square, construction in the Harvard Square Station, and the construction of Holyoke temporary station...
...over a picture spread of the New York Yankees stepping off a plane after their 10-4 defeat by Kansas City in the second game of the American League pennant playoffs. Newspaper-starved New Yorkers, who had subsisted on a diet of generally skimpy interim strike papers, crowded around subway kiosks and street-corner newsstands to snatch up copies of the city's first real-life newspaper since Aug. 9. The first edition of 128 pages-twice as big as usual-was fat with pre-Columbus Day advertising, an eight-page news review of the 56 "lost" days...
Captain Steve Potysman, who was no less than bubbly after the game, noted that, "They drove on us right after Subway (Beling) went out with his injury. But when they got too close we buckled down, and Matt (Sabetti) was super in Beling's place...
...weeks after New York City lost the services of its major dailies, New Yorkers are noticing that the landscape, mores and habits of their city are changing in subtle ways. Without newspapers to occupy their eyes, for instance, subway riders now scrutinize one another, the messages on their T shirts, the brand names of their running shoes, the labels on their luggage. Some newspaper addicts have turned to paperbacks, and others say they are attempting "to think." Husbands and wives are forced into conversation at the breakfast table, though the court system has not yet recorded any resulting alteration...