Word: subways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Philadelphia, 1,500 subway riders stumbled through darkness from their stalled trains beneath the city where Benjamin Franklin started it all by attracting a bolt of lightning with kite and key. In Menlo Park, N.J., on the spot where Thomas Alva Edison invented the light bulb, an "eternal light" winked out for an instant before an emergency generator restored its glow...
...filled with two or three musical turns, a guest comic's bit or a mildly satirical skit, and-best of all-engaging conversations with guests who range in celebrity from Vice President Hubert Humphrey to people who are merely interesting-an Australian stowaway, a clearly spurious seer, a subway conductor turned poet...
True enough. To transport armies of Expo goers from Montreal's downtown, a new, $213 million, 16.1-mile subway was tunneled under the city. Trucks roared along the city streets 24 hours a day, dumped thousands of tons of fill from the subway excavation into the river, extended the mud flat that was the He Sainte-Hélène and created the He Notre Dame, which became Expo's major sites. New bridges, a spaghetti pattern of elevated highways, and a theater complex, Place des Arts, were constructed. To provide an upstream system of ice control...
Chance is one of the subtle themes in Starting Out in the Thirties, and it was by chance that Kazin entered the radical writer's community. Riding the subway home from City College one day in June, 1934, Kazin read a review by John Chamberlain, the radical New York Times reviewer, of a book on youth...
...Kazin got off the subway at Times Square and went up to see Chamberlain. Five hours later he left carrying with him a recommendation that he be given a chance to review books for the New Republic...