Word: subway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like any other big construction project, the subway extension promises to be a big mess--"five miserable years of it," as officials in the Harvard Planning Office predict. But Harvard has its own committee to coordinate plans with the MBTA, and even though most Harvard students won't be riding the RedLine to Alewife, this process will have a big effect on their lives...
...kiosk will not be its own familiar site in the Square during the construction period. In stead, passengers will stop in front of the Yen Ching chinese restaurant on Mass Ave, and descend into the subway in front of Holyoke Center. Another stop at the Kennedy School of Government will also include buses, and word has it that the new occupants of this building are not exactly looking forward to the location of the temporary stop...
MBTA officals doubt they will find more remnants along the way, as they begin construction on the Red Line extension to Alewife, but such occurences are not unusual. For instance, there is the famous example of the time they started digging the subway for Mexico City in the late 1960s and unearthed a whole city...
...really knows the exact reason why senior Craig Beling's nickname is "Subway." Something to do with Newton's first law (Force equals mass times acceleration), I suppose. Subway led the football team in tackles while playing linebacker last year, and he earned All-Ivy honorable mention honors as a heavyweight wrestler...
SATURDAY AFTERNOON: She had run two miles her first day of jogging, then three miles the second. Now she was going for six. All right, she felt a bit sore. But she was young, only 35, and in good shape ... Next day she had to go down the subway steps backward on her way to the doctor...