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...half-hour. As it was, Vivien Leigh's next-morning smile remains one of the most graphically suggestive moments in the history of movies. Usually, directors were clumsier. In Picnic, Kim Novak and William Holden knelt beside the railroad tracks and kissed as a train thundered out of the tunnel. Elsewhere the censorship of the Hays office produced kisses that culminated in horses rearing, waves crashing, flames leaping. Or the camera would cut heavenward through sunlit trees...
...addition to being a real economic problem, the debt has become a very important psychological problem for the people of Mexico. A person or a country can work with greater enthusiasm if they can see a light at the end of the tunnel. But if they see that however many efforts and sacrifices they make, there seems to be no way out, a problem of despondency arises...
Nine hundred feet below the pavement, Owney Morrison works on a tunnel that will bring water to millions of New York City taps. Drill, blast, drill, blast, 45 ft. a day, 225 ft. a week. The job will take years and men's lives. Some will get careless and fall down shafts; others will be blown up when they stick their drills into holes containing unexploded charges. Most will succumb to what can euphemistically be called the sandhog's life-style, a grimy regimen that scorns the world of paper pushers and blots out feelings with alcohol...
While two such plans would renovate the Larz Anderson Bridge and the Weeks Footbridge, others address the possibility of creating a new crossing. Building a bridge from Winthrop House’s two halls to the current HBS campus is one option. Another is extending the MBTA bus tunnel from Brattle Square to emerge near Harvard Stadium...
...other proposals suggest constructing a new crossing entirely. One plan would extend the existing MBTA bus tunnel in Harvard and Brattle Squares underneath the Charles to emerge near Harvard Stadium...