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...Town. In Nagoya, Japan, Fusao Ochiai missed the last streetcar, swiped a trolley and drove it to his home, soon got another free ride-to jail...
...showdown began when cops tear-gassed and whipped 800 high school students protesting a trolley-fare hike. The brutality brought out the university students next day. Alarmed, the government canceled the fare hike, but 1,000 students grabbed stones, tree limbs or bicycle pumps, marched into the grounds of Asunción's largest high school chanting: "We will be victorious or die." The cops slammed 30 tear-gas shells into the school grounds and flogged the youths through an Indian gantlet of two rows of police, who beat the students as they fled...
...tourist track at Lugano, tucked away in a wing of Thyssen's cypress-shaded palazzo. Made public partly for tax purposes, the museum is not open all year or every day, but whoever gets to Lugano between April 1 and Nov. 1 can take the trolley to the Thyssen estate and present himself at the gates Friday through Monday for one of the treats of his life...
Opponents of the extension have stressed its cost, already estimated at $20 million, and almost sure to go higher. But while the initial costs are great, the improvement will permit substitution of profitable rapid transit operations for deficit-producing bus and trolley routes--a very appealing argument since the MTA was $15 million in the red last year...
Lenthall hoped that work on the underground extension could start in July, when Massachusetts Ave. is scheduled to be widened. Under plans drawn by the Department of Public Works, the street will be widened six feet on each side. A five foot safety island will be added and unused trolley tracks removed...