Word: underpasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gazing resentfully at raw stumps, gaping holes and blocked-off streets, Rome's citizens let out a noise that could be heard distinctly above the traffic's roar. Tunneling for one underpass, charged critics, would irretrievably weaken the 16th century gate at the Piazza del Popolo, as well as whole sections of the city wall built by the Emperor Aurelian (A.D. 270-275). "Our trees are being slaughtered," added Columnist Indro Montanelli. "because they have neither voices nor votes. We are being drowned in a wave of cement...
...Cross Country meet scheduled for yesterday has been postponed until later because of weekend rains, which flooded out the Eliot Bridge underpass and made the track muddy, The House secretaries will reschedule the race at their meeting today...
...TIME, June 13) had been fitted with an underpass and Vienna's first escalators, which contributed their share of excitement (INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE WITH ESCALATORS AND FiDELio headlined one Vienna tabloid). Nearby streets sprouted new arc lights and fresh flowers. Not in years had Vienna's women had a similar occasion for dressing up; archducal and bourgeois jewelry alike came out of hock or hiding. Demel's, Vienna's calorie-proud confectioner, combined Austria's two major treasures-music and food-in an exhibition of sugar figurines representing notable Vienna opera greats, e.g., Sopranos Maria Jeritza...
Construction has already begun on a half-million dollar underpass to relieve traffic congestion at the intersection of soldiers Field Road and the Larz Anderson bridge. The entire project will probably be competed by October, according to Edward McSweeny, senior civil engineer for the Boston Metropolitan Commission...
...underpass would be dug at the end of the Anderson Bridge, which extends from Boylston St. and Harvard Square. Traffic tieups there on football Saturdays are particularly bad, although delays are caused every night around...