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...parents made a point of showing me newspaper profiles about Wall Street executives who had majored in such esoteric fields as classics or Sanskrit. For all I knew, the financial world might be crawling with closeted philosophy types, sneaking in a few illicit hours with Kierkegaard before taking the subway to work...
...cents] for girls and 50[cents] for boys, and it went till 4 a.m. Pretty soon Clive was getting requests to do more parties, and in 1973 he gave his first block party. He was Kool Herc now--that was the graffito tag he used to write on subway cars--and he got respect. At 18 he was the first break-beat deejay, reciting rhymes over the "break," or instrumental, part of the records he was spinning. He had two turntables going and two copies of each record, so he could play the break over and over, on one turntable...
...country that could invent the bidet obviously has a penchant for vaguely ludicrous cosmetics, and so it came to pass Friday that the Parisian subway system received the first application of a new perfume. The scent, named Madeleine (after one of the more notoriously fetid stops on the Metro) is to be splashed throughout the subway system over the next few weeks in order to combat the unwholesome odors that have permeated the city's underground since its creation...
This afternoon, as hundreds of students begin flowing out of their rooms and into the subway to begin their trip home, a few solitary souls will be left behind...
DIED. HARRY WEESE, 83, the Chicago architect who designed Washington's imposing and functional Metro subway system and championed one of the city's most controversial markers, Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial; in Manteno, Ill. His Chicago landmarks include the towering Time & Life Building and a restoration of the Field Museum...