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...Street, enlarge another on the plaza's perimeter and to provide extra parking facilities. To get commercial traffic out of the way, he built a delivery tunnel beneath the stores. Alongside the tunnel, but burrowing three stories below, he built a 2,000-car garage, provided escalators to whisk the motorist to the plaza level. In the spacious, columned malls and arcades he put gardens and sculptures. To add a town-square touch, he designed sidewalk cafes, planted trees, and put benches beneath them for the tired shopper or any idler who wanted to stop for a gossip...
...glad to hear that the elevators at the new Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles will "whisk" fans to their seats at the rate of "200 ft. per second" [March 30]. A quick calculation indicates that at 136 m.p.h., passengers will be plastered all over the floor for half the trip, and all over the ceiling for the other half...
...ladies, among them the beautiful Duchess of Rutland, a widow twelve years his senior. Annoyed one night that he was separated from the duchess, Paget set fire to some gunpowder in the house where she was sleeping. In the tumult that followed, he managed to whisk her off to a nearby hayloft. The war with Napoleon was just what Paget's exuberant spirits needed, and he whipped the British cavalry into a crack fighting force. He was watching his men smash the French at Waterloo, standing next to the Duke of Wellington, when...
Grabgrind came to Harvard eight years later wary of its reputation as a place where one was asked to give often. He found, however, that he did not even need to employ his slippery skills; one could whisk past the supplicants at registration lines in 14 seconds flat. Easiest of all was the week of the Combined Charities Drive, which Grabgrind spent in Bermuda...
...Britain received the news grimly. Washington saw the "absurd" pretext of a German threat as the opening bid for stationing Soviet troops on Finnish soil while diverting attention from Soviet pressure on Berlin. Ultimately, Moscow might intend to whisk neutral Finland behind the Iron Curtain, lock the Baltic door behind her. The Swedes felt the same fears, and there was growing talk about reconsidering Sweden's historic neutrality. NATO member Norway, which shares a 390-mile frontier with Finland in the north, prepared to draw up new defense plans...