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Anthony D. Pompeo, chairman of the trustees of the Metropolitan Transit Authority, said last night, "We have had several conferences concerning air rights over the car barns off Harvard Square, opposite Kirkland House. Harvard wants to build over our yards...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: University May Acquire Space Over MTA Yards | 10/8/1957 | See Source »

Inside the blockhouse an Air Force officer peered through a scope (roughly resembling a surveyor's transit), saw the wobbly bird, now three miles up, skitter outside the safety zone. Dutifully, he pressed the fatal button. An enormous blob of flame suddenly enwrapped the bird. A moment later, all that remained of the ingeniously concocted, $6,000,000 Atlas were some shreds of metal and a smudge of smoke in the misty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Death of the Big Bird | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

City councilors will discuss the traffic problem in the Harvard area with representatives of the Metropolitan Transit Authority at an open, pre-election meeting next Monday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vellucci Requests Aid Of Universities' Police At Busy Intersections | 10/1/1957 | See Source »

...outset, President Eisenhower characteristically asked everyone to speak frankly and freely. They did. The discussion ranged over the timing of school desegregation not only in Arkansas but throughout the South. Faubus explained at length the integration progress already made in Arkansas, at the state university in Fayetteville, in public transit systems, etc. Finally the governor made a significant request: that Little Rock integration be delayed (a mere year's postponement would get Faubus past next July's Democratic primary, when he hopes to win renomination for a third term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Retreat from Newport | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...change Ohio legislation that ties the hands of mayors and police chiefs against "entrenched practices" among the police. Gordon, whose previous reporting was limited to real estate, basked in his sudden celebrity. A sumptuous brunette, he said, recognized him from his pictures as he rode home on a rapid-transit car, and, leaning over, her mouth close to his ear, whispered: "Hello, Badge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: I Was the Law | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

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