Word: subways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Javits is willing to risk all he has won for what he wryly refers to as "my vice-presidential foray." He makes no secret of coveting the nomination. "Hi, Mr. Vice President," cracked Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington when the two met aboard the Senate subway the other day. "Hi, yourself," Javits grinned, slightly embarrassed but mightily pleased. As an enthusiastic and frequent student of form at New York's Aqueduct Race Track, he knows that he belongs in the long-shot category. He also knows that handicapping politicians is, if possible, a less precise science than handicapping Thoroughbreds...
...improvement in University-City relations can be attributed to a greater interest by many members of the Harvard community in what's going on in Cambridge. Yet, it would be easy to overestimate this interest (for most Harvard students, one suspects, "Central" is little more than a subway stop on the way to Boston), and it would be easy to ex-exaggerate its importance. Other forces also lie behind the change...
...Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority hints that it might extend the Harvard Square subway line under Radcliffe Yard, which does not please the Administration, either. One thousand three hundred forty five out of 6605 applicants are admitted to Harvard's Class of '70 and 348 out of 2075 to Radcliffe's. Seventeen asks "What Are Harvard Freshmen Like?" and concludes that they "are neally no different from the boy next door." A Radcliffe junior, tired of dorm life, runs a tongue-in-cheek ad for a one-year marriage marriage and receives 150 proposals...
...Subway Incident...
...University will study how deep the tunnel should go, and how thick the concrete shell of the tunnel should be, to minimize surface effects of the subway. Goyette emphasized, however, that until the MBTA makes final its design for the extension, the University will be unable to begin 'detailed studies...