Word: subways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority intends to rebuild--probably in a new location--its subway station in Harvard Square...
...same firm is preparing plans for the extension of the subway line into North Cambridge. It now appears that there will be a new station constructed at Porter Square and another at the intersection of the Alewife Brook Parkway and Massachusetts Avenue...
Getting ready for next year's Olympic games in Mexico City, Mexico's 45 million people are rightfully proud of their visible share in the appurtenances of the modern world. A subway is abuilding in the capital, and Mexico has just begun producing its own color TV tubes. The country's electricity output is computer-controlled, and planning is under way, with U.S. help, on Mexico's own space satellite for educational TV relay. The gross national product is increasing by 7% annually; foreign investment is flooding in at the healthy rate of $200 million...
Vellucci has a standing proposal that Harvard be razed to make way for a parking lot, subway terminal, cab stand, and bus stop...
This book by the London Observer's former Moscow correspondent fails to bring Khrushchev alive, but it raises questions about all the unknowns in his life: what was his childhood like; was he really a sadistic Stalinist during the old days as a commissar of the Moscow subway; did his war experiences turn him away from Stalin; did he become a "goulash Communist" only after the showdown in Cuba; why did he permit Brezhnev and Kosygin to ease him out? This book fails to answer those questions, but only Nikita can do the job-and he is unlikely...