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...informally open to any of his ministers. When Bonn Traffic Officer Siegfried Hahlbohm, 24, failed to give Strauss's car an immediate signal into the alley, the impatient minister ordered his driver, Leonhard Kaiser, to go ahead anyway. Kaiser did so, thereby forcing the conductor of an oncoming trolley car on the main thoroughfare to slam on his emergency brake. As Strauss's grey BMW sedan screeched off toward the chancellery, Good Cop Hahlbohm dutifully noted down its license number...
...squeaked through high school, then drifted ("I just liked to draw") until he was 19. One day he dropped his shyness long enough to go right up to a pretty girl in the street and ask for a date. Recalls his wife, Ana Lisa: "I was waiting for a trolley. It was really all a surprise." The fact that his future father-in-law was a contractor gave Niemeyer the idea of entering architecture school, but he did not have the necessary credits. So, he says, "I played soccer, went fishing and swimming, learned jujitsu." At 22, with daughter...
Although the mark of change could be seen on the Sodality's activities--they went on trips to neighboring towns in trolley cars instead of horse cars--the basic pattern of meeting, drinking and abjourning did not change much during their first 75 years. Later, however, football matches between Pierian and the Glee Club, and trips to Wellesley, Smith, and Radcliffe were added to the agenda...
...study is to be undertaken by a group of MTA and Harvard engineers for the "relocation of equipment," Pompeo reported. Renovation of the barns, disposal of outdated and defective equipment and the conversion of many trolley routes to trackless trolleys and buses should make some of the property available to the University...
...Pittsburgh (pop. 680,000), Mayor Dave Lawrence, 68, a Democratic boss who runs the wards and precincts with a clenched fist and welcomes civic redevelopment projects with an open hand (TIME, Nov. 4), ignored feeble Republican attempts to trip him on such issues as Little Rock and a local trolley strike (typically, both strikers and management came to Dave Lawrence's defense), rolled to a fourth term by the largest plurality (59,511) of his career. ¶ Mayor Richard C. Lee, another Democrat busy remodeling a city, won reelection in New Haven, Conn. (pop. 165,500) by the largest...