Word: transition
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week, probably tomorrow, the MBTA will release a master plan for rapid transit expansion within the Boston metropolitan area. One of the key recommendations is expected to be the extension of the Harvard Square line into North Cambridge, probably to Porter Square and then out to Route 2. And one possible route for this extension would take the subway directly beneath Radcliffe Yard and precariously close to the Loeb Drama Center...
...university student, on half-fare standby [April 22] from St. Louis to Atlanta, waited eight hours in St. Louis, then bought another ticket to Washington, D.C., where he waited four more hours, then bought another ticket to Atlanta, arriving home after nearly 24 hours in transit. Needless to say, by then "standby" was just a dirty word, and we purchased still another ticket for the return to school. I'm not too happy to learn that American Airlines has earned two million plus exploiting our kids...
...annual rate of $1.1 billion, continues to expand in many other fields. Last week it bought the Institute of Computer Management, a school for computer programmers-of which Litton needs a considerable number. It is also examining 40 to 50 vastly varied firms, including Wilson Marine Transit and other Great Lakes shipping lines. Says Thornton: "We never sit still-before or after a merger...
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...dragged herself off to the hospital. Merrick sent the lady a bouquet of plastic roses and demanded a lie-detector test. At various times since then, he has flown into snits over Richard Rodgers, Arthur Miller, Barry Goldwater, Mayor Lindsay, the New York Telephone Co., the New York City Transit Authority, and the Republican Party (when accused of calling Henry Cabot Lodge "a broken-down Republican," he denied indignantly that he had used "a phrase so redundant"). He has even taken out after Santa Clans; last December, with characteristic gallows humor, he sent out Christmas cards showing St. Nick hanging...