Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though he turned 60 last week, Nelson Rockefeller showed all the ebullience of a conventioneering Jaycee as he bounced from coast to coast in a spurt of razzle-dazzle campaigning. He rode a motorized ricksha and a cable car in San Francisco, a trolley in St. Louis, a stern-wheeler on the Ohio near Louisville, and a pea-green convertible in Wall Street. He still was not riding any bandwagon, but in Miami, at least, he got a surprise present: an endorsement from Florida Governor Claude Kirk-the first Southern Governor to support him to date. Then, Pennsylvania...
...nbergs made Their money honestly enough, in trade, In trolley-cars, in diamonds, bonds, or beer, Banking, or railroads, well-established here By the mid-Eighties, in an atmosphere Of opulence, unquestionably graced With what their times and peers would call good taste, Arbiters of suburban etiquette, Leaders of the town-and-country set. They learned to adapt themselves to wearing spats, Frock-coats, striped morning-trousers, bowler hats, They learned to give high teas, to ride to hounds, To keep within the proper meets and bounds, Were public-spirited, would patronize, Most lavishly, the decent charities; Noblesse oblige. Somewhere...
...malaise of poverty is pervasive, restricting opportunities before they even arise. Some of the kids in the area around the Center have never even been into central Boston, though it's just a trolley ride away. Poverty also has been linked to disease. Federal statistics show that for a person under 45 with an income of $10,000 or more the average number of visits to a physician is 5.0 per year. When the income level drops to under $3,000 visits drop to 3.2 per year. Even with free medical programs this discrepancy remains. In England after fifteen years...
...problem was evident at Thursday's State House hearing--people hate the MBTA when the MBTA wants to take away their trolley stops and plant huge transit facilities in their backyard. The only way Cambridge can get a Kennedy Library is for the MBTA to move its Bennett St. facility (across from Eliot House) to make way. The only way the MBTA can move is to find a place to relocate...
...MBTA Advisory Board last week approved a plan to move the car barns and repair yards to Mattapan Square and to run a rapid transit line there, replacing the trolleys that now run along the route through Dorchester and Milton. But the trolley stops are too close' together for high-speed subways, so some of the stops would have to be eliminated--three in Milton and one in Dorchester...