Word: subways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard, about 50 students gathered on the steps of (??)Mem Church at 11 a.m., planning to march to M.I.T. But, because of the pouring rain and small numbers, they divided into groups and went over by buses and subway...
...give the side roads a try. If everybody else in your class seems bent on applying to Yale, apply to Princeton. In political terms, the strategy called for Marchi to belittle his opponents' wild promises by citing the fiscal realities-he, too, would like to preserve the 20-cent subway fare, but he wanted New Yorkers to know that might not be possible. He, too, desired open enrollment at City University, but he alone of the candidates would acknowledge the possibility that money might not be forthcoming...
More immediately important, cities must begin to reclaim some of the ground and air space now dominated by the automobile. Theodore Kheel, with Mayor Lindsay's backing, has proposed lifting bridge and tunnel tolls to finance a continued 20-cent subway fare. Mario Procaccino has opposed the Kheel plan, asserting that drivers should not be asked to subsidize mass transit more than they are already doing. With this argument, Procaccino completely fails to realize that mass transit riders already pay a tremendous, almost incalculable subsidy to drivers: they travel in a crowded, dirty, sightless underground, while conceding the open...
...group met in Leverett House at 9:30 p.m., where song sheets and candy were distributed. A flower-painted leader in Disneyland T-shirt passed out instructions to "Be Spontaneous," "Make Friends," and "Let the sun rise on the M.B.T.A" The theme of the subway happening was "happiness," taken from the album. "Red Beans and Rice...
...passenger told several girls that he would stage similar subway happenings in his home town of San Francisco. A graduate student in electrical engineering at M.I.T. continued on the train past his own stop, insisting that he be informed of the next event. Several phone numbers were received from other travelers...