Word: subways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Riverside on the Newton - Wellesley border is a popular public course, and is easy to get to by subway. Ponkapoag in Canton is the best public course south of Boston. And there's always the Cambridge Municipal on Fresh Pond, which can boast of convenience and nothing else...
CITY HALL IS AT Government Center, a short walk from the Park Street subway station, just past the movie theatre where the Beatles' movies come to town. It is a strange-looking building with two big cement eyes which stare out at passing citizens. Strange, but appropriate, for when you look around at the other buildings, it is almost frightening how sterile and monstrous they are. The John F. Kennedy Federal Building, where you go to get your passport, and where the Internal Revenue Service gobbles up your money, stretches up much higher than City Hall in row after...
...year-old woman was killed yesterday morning when she fell in the path of a Boston-bound MBTA subway train in the Harvard Square station. The victim was identified as Mrs. Christian Lane of Washington Street in Gloucester...
...which now goes to highways. Highway construction money comes out of a special trust fund which was set up only after the most intricate and laborious legislative maneuverings. Bingham's bill proposes to use money from this highway trust fund for mass transportation needs, such as building and improving subway systems. Bingham has run into strong opposition from lobbies like the American Automobile Association whose position he called "no more responsible than the position taken by the National Rifle Association on the issue of gun control...
...phones are wrecked monthly. New York Telephone Co. last year lost nearly $1,000,000 in coins and spent $4,000,000 on repairs. The city's sidewalk phones are the worst hit: at least 25% are out of order all the time. At train stations, on subway platforms and in entire neighborhoods, it is sometimes impossible to find a working phone...