Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston University Law Professor William Schwartz, the holiday season got off to a fast start last week. Massachusetts authorities announced an agreement that gives him a $799,000 fee for negotiating a settlement in a dispute involving a fleet of trolley cars claimed to be defective. Because the cars kept jumping the track, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (M.B.T.A.) wanted them modified by the manufacturer, Boeing Vertol Co. In September, after a year of futile negotiations, Schwartz, a products-liability expert, was hired. Before the M.B.T.A. and Schwartz could agree what his remuneration would be, he extracted from Boeing Vertol...
...Boeing was not in the trolley car business originally, so it's not surprising that their first try wasn't that good. I heard the doors in those cars have 4000 moving parts; you have to figure something will go wrong," he said...
Cambridge Mayor Thomas W. Danehy said yesterday he would like to see the settlement money used for shuttle buses to transport trolley bus riders from the bus stop by Cambridge Common to the temporary Eliot Station. He added that increased shuttle service would eliminate the wintry walk between the stops, a potential health hazard for the elderly...
Like almost everyone else who came into contact with Alex, his nephew found the power of his legend and his charm irresistible. How could it be otherwise with a man who had begun his career directing short films in a disused trolley barn in Budapest and ended up occupying the penthouse floor of Claridge's in London, where Churchill and Beaverbrook lingered over brandy and where a supply of fresh toothbrushes, still in their cellophane wrappers, was kept to accommodate women who decided to spend the night. Some of them, it was said, were seduced...
...with the O's 11 games up on the Yanks--the Red Sox seven--and a black tie dinner at The Ritz in October at stake with my roommates, I paid my quarter and boarded the Red Line bound for Kenmore Sq. As I switched to the trolley at Park St., more and more passengers sporting the Fenway look pushed, shoved and crowded around me. Blue and red helmets, sweatshirts, Red Sox painter's caps, and almost any other type of paraphernalia imaginable cluttered my vision--all emblazoned with that hated "B." As the trolley rattled closer to Kenmore Square...