Word: subways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hunter's difficulties lie deeper than the subway tubes. Faculty and students agree that the college's entire structure needs overhauling. They complain about the heavy general education requirements, for the battery of compulsory courses includes art, music and physical education. By requiring a minor as well as a major field, Hunter makes flexible programming extraordinarily difficult...
...throw to second base; another time he beaned the second-base umpire, and one day he caught a fly ball with his forehead. His face creased in concentration, Yogi was always the first Yankee to report for work. "I know I'm going to take the wrong subway, so I leave an hour early...
When Montreal planned a subway, it turned to Paris' Métro as a model. When the city's police force was overhauled, Paris detectives were called in for advice. When Quebec drew up its six-year development plan, it was only natural to turn for inspiration to France's successful planification économique. And when Quebec Premier Jean Lesage journeyed to Paris to open a $340,000 Maison du Quebec two years ago, Charles de Gaulle welcomed him with all the pomp usually accorded a head of state...
...material inheritance were Minister of State for Cultural Affairs André Malraux and 130 top French businessmen and officials. The occasion: a $1,000,000 science-and-industry Exposition Française, the biggest business fair ever held in Montreal. Besides showing off everything from surgical instruments to a subway car, France sent along spectacular displays of 10,000 flowers from the Côte d'Azur, 30 tapestries and an exhibition of recent French...
...Vatican Council (which resumes next week); the papal audience takes place in the transept behind the high altar. Shortly before 10, about 8,000 people clutching audience tickets-pink or blue for most of them, the highly prized white for those with altar-side seats-had squeezed subway-tight around Bernini's ornate balda-chino, which covers the high altar underneath the basilica dome. "This is worse than the bargain basement at Klein's," complained a much-jostled librarian from Schenectady. "This will be the fourth Pope I've seen," boasted a man from Rochester, inching toward...