Word: walking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the wireless room down the hall being hustled in and out. She would, too, like to hear the shouts of Teddy Roosevelt as he romped through corridors, get a short glimpse of Eleanor Roosevelt bustling out the front door of the White House to take a bus or walk up Connecticut Avenue like any other citizen...
Asked about her response to American food, Italian Giovanna Vitelli doesn't pause even a second before blurting: "I avoid it like--Wait, I take that back. Once in a while, when I walk with my friends and we pass a typical American restaurant, I turn to them and say 'Hey, let's go in and have a greasy, disgusting, slimy meal."' If Vitelli doesn't seem to mind the grease, it's only because, she says, "There's a lot to be gained from the cultural experience alone...
This "discontent" is difficult to define, but you can feel it as you walk down Didouche Mourade, the main boulevard in Algiers. Packs of young men sit on the iron rails that line the street. Many do not have money because they are unemployed, unequipped with the technical skills Algeria needs so badly. Ten years ago unemployment was worse but easier to tolerate, because everybody else was either unemployed or poor. Now it is harder to bear because there are so many flashy new state institutions. Algeria is richer than the Algerians, and many Algerians know...
...making his decision back in Albany, N.Y., after he realized that "if you said hi to people on the streets, they thought you were going to mug them." He loaded up his wife and four children and headed for Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where, he says gratefully, "my wife can walk the dog at 2 a.m. without fear, and the kids haven't been mugged on the way to school or had their lunches taken away from them...
...cars recovered, but sources say that almost all car thefts are for joy rides. In Massachusetts, borrowing a car is merely a misdemeanor, while keeping it is a felony. One Harvard patrolman says that car owners should be particularly wary on rainy nights--car thieves don't like to walk in the rain. Sexual crimes for the six-month period are low. Only exhibitionists and one "Peeping Tom" were arrested, but police say those figures will probably increase "when things warm...