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Parking facilities would be provided at North Cambridge, and the trackless trolley line running along Massachusetts Ave. eliminated with the proposed $20 million extension...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Public Transit Expert Recommends Extension of MTA | 3/4/1959 | See Source »

...process of disintegration, Zhivago devolves from a respected physician and devoted poet to a tired, beaten man who dies of a heart attack on a Moscow trolley-car. And that disintegration cannon be ascribed solely to the disruptive political system which surrounds him, to the "inscrutability of universal chaos...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Pasternak's Hero: Man Against the Monoliths | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...ironic token of the complete reversal of the social hourglass, he lives with the daughter of his former porter. He is mocked and ridiculed. A kind of Suffering Servant, he does odd chores for his neighbors. One morning, in a Moscow trolley, he feels suffocated, tugs vainly at the window for a breath of air and dies short minutes later of a heart attack-buried alive, as the first-page parable foretold, for lack of the vital air of freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Passion of Yurii Zhivago | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

Another Annex cyclist suffered a head cut and possibly a mild concussion just after 1 p.m. when her bicycle skidded on Massachusetts Avenue near Waterhouse Street. Lola M. Lloyd '62, who was knocked unconscious for a few minutes, said afterwards, "I don't know whether I slipped on a trolley track or was hit by a car; but I think my wheel just got caught in a wet track...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Student Cyclists In Hospital After Accidents in Rain | 11/28/1958 | See Source »

...trolley cars were running in Beirut again, though it was a bumpy ride through streets torn and pitted by five months of civil war. Joyous bonfires were lit, the shops rolled up their shutters, the barricades began to come down. Shots rang out, but only in celebration; peace had come at last to Lebanon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: Back in Balance | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

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