Word: walking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is one of the finest in the country--its collections of Egyptian and Oriental art are the best in the Western Hemisphere. Take the Red Line subway to Park Street, transfer to the Arborway, get off at Northeastern and walk two blocks. Admission is $2.50, but you can get in free and buy a one-year student pass for $5.00. Hours are Wed.-Sun. 10-5, Tuesday 10-9. Right now the MFA is also on a bicentennial binge, with an exhibit on Paul Revere and a slide show on the Revolution...
...largest supermarket in the world is always jammed with people, all of whom walk around purposefully, looking for bargains and talking to one another. The vast space is easy to move through, and doesn't weight them down. Somehow they have gotten a grip on the place, and it doesn't frighten them to shop there. Everything there works as the customers expect it to work, and that a place can be so big and manageable at the same time seems to make people happy. I tell people that it's sort of a monument to the human spirit...
Foundations like to be "seed money"--the first supporters of a new field of study. Soviet research is hardly new, and it is time, say all the center's God-parents, from the Dean's office to the Ford Foundation, to walk on your own. The center, after 27 years, must go out into the world for itself...
...accompanied by the standard number of agents in his personal entourage (the exact number is a secret), and there was a relaxed air about the trip. A Secret Service official points out that if there had been any indication of trouble, Ford would not have been allowed to walk anywhere−"He would have been...
...attacking excessive Government regulation for causing "cost, contradiction and confusion." He was obviously untroubled by a plea from liberal Republicans earlier in the week that he moderate his conservative line. After the breakfast meeting, Ford went back to the hotel and, right on schedule, left at 9:55 to walk a block to the California state capitol, where he had a 10 o'clock appointment with Governor Jerry Brown. At about that time, a small, slim woman wearing a bright red, full-length gown and a matching turban asked a policeman on the street between the hotel...