Word: transiting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presentation; much of the magazine's manner and content retain the tone of cultivated nostalgia that one expects to find there. The latest issue carries a full page picture of the last day of all-male study in Lamont, fringed with a mournful black border and captioned "Sic Transit Gloria Viri." Bethell like his predecessors pounds out for every issue an anonymous column of donnish humor called "The College Pump...
...passengers a day, the New York City subway system offers the world's longest ride. Last week, to make that ride pleasanter, the Transit Authority issued a list of 39 new, delicately detailed rules regulating the behavior of passengers both on trains and in stations, and for good measure, on buses as well...
...process. Hurtling to one crime call after another, police sometimes seem to view Negroes and Mexicans (24% of the populace) through the eyes of an occupation army. Only 4% of the force are Negroes, compared with 13.5% of the population. By comparison, of New York City's regular, transit and housing police, 9% are Negroes, v. 15% of the population. The minorities seem sometimes in the grip of an anti-cop mystique that turns every attempt to enforce the law into an outrageous act of persecution...
...facilitate outdoor recreation development, set up a program creating a county-agent-style welfare service to help deprived or undereducated city dwellers, increase middle-income housing construction, and float a $2 billion bond issue to improve New York's transportation systems-both transstate highways and the critical mass transit network in traffic-clogged New York City. Minnesota's Le Vander proposed a Metropolitan Service Council that would amalgamate the management of problems including everything from city sewage disposal to mass transit to parkland development around the 1,600,000-population area of Minneapolis-St. Paul...
...major stumbling block to an early start, the architect said, was the inability of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority to vacate the site for the Library--the M.B.T.A.'s 12 acre Bennett St. repair yards...