Word: subways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from his plane, then found himself so far from a city center that the time spent in getting there has equaled his time in the air. He has put up with dirty and inadequate equipment when he took to the rails, experienced the instant calamity of a subway strike or missed an important conference because his airport bus got caught in traffic. For many Americans, getting there is no longer half the fun. It is instead a task that must be faced with gritted teeth and steely determination...
...experiments which indicate that better service and modern equipment will lure at least some drivers back to public conveyances. San Francisco is currently building the nation's first wholly new rail transit system in 60 years, and Washington is planning another. Massachusetts has borrowed $40 million for new subway lines and commuter railroad subsidies. New York State this year bought the bankrupt Long Island Rail Road, the nation's largest commuter line. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut are splitting commuter rail subsidies with...
That sort of grim efficiency would never do for Notre Dame's legion of fans across the U.S. After all, what subway alumnus ever dreams of off-tackle plunges while riding the BMT home to Brooklyn? Coach Ara Parseghian knew just what was needed. "Enthusiasm," reads a sign on his office wall. "If we have it, we should thank God for it. If we don't have it, we should get down on our knees and pray for it." Fact is, Ara could barely contain his enthusiasm when the Irish opened their season against Purdue two weeks...
...Greeley Square store, with its two subterranean floors of bargain basement for subway shoppers, was an immediate success. On the strength of it, Bernard Gimbel took another chance. In 1923 he negotiated with Horace A. Saks to buy Saks's 34th Street store as well as the Fifth Avenue site where Saks was planning an uptown store. The negotiations took place partly in a railroad baggage car, where the two men sat atop an empty coffin and talked business. Saks's Cadillac-class merchandise now accounts for half of Gimbel Bros.' earnings...
...Pierre Leaud) meets and mates a Coke-stoked rock-'n'-roll belter (Chantal Goya), but not long after dies in an absurd accident, leaving the girl to face an amateur abortion performed with a curtain rod. The puzzle is further complicated by irrelevancies: switchblade suicide, lesbian interlude, subway murder, movie within a movie within a movie that culminates in a very dirty joke...