Word: sidewalks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still camera that photographed every customer paying by check. In her confusion, the clerk wrapped the package without first removing the tags. One of them was a wafer, specially radiated to set off a Knogo sonic alarm in the doorway of the store. John had barely reached the sidewalk when he was surrounded by detectives who accused him of shoplifting...
...response to the sight of an obviously unguarded, abandoned car. Within ten minutes, their vehicle received its first visitors. The researchers' log reads, in chilling ellipsis: "Family of three drive by, stop. All leave car. Well-dressed mother with Saks Fifth Avenue shopping bag stands by car on sidewalk keeping watch. Boy, about eight years old, stays by father throughout, observing and helping. Father, dressed in neat sport shirt, slacks and windbreaker, inspects car, opens trunk, rummages through; opens own car trunk full of tools, removes hacksaw, cuts for one minute. Lifts battery out and puts...
...acute as in New York, where an average 35,000 of the city's 100,000 pay phones are wrecked monthly. New York Telephone Co. last year lost nearly $1,000,000 in coins and spent $4,000,000 on repairs. The city's sidewalk phones are the worst hit: at least 25% are out of order all the time. At train stations, on subway platforms and in entire neighborhoods, it is sometimes impossible to find a working phone...
...back in the District of Columbia, which also was to vote the next Tuesday in a direct Kennedy-Humphrey test. The triumphal hour was saddened when a lead car struck the dog of a twelve-year-old girl. As the child stood numbly next to her pet at the sidewalk curb, Kennedy jumped from his car, stroked the animal and consoled the girl," Witcover wrote, "and Ethel ran into the store to phone for help...
London's stately Albert Hall has long been a choice working ground for the piebald bevy of street musicians, sing ers and dancers known as buskers. Let a ticket line form on the sidewalk out side and the buskers were there to clown, sing and fiddle, while their bottlers (assistants) passed the hat for coppers and shillings like Dickensian urchins in the night. Last week there were no buskers on the sidewalk. Instead, 40 of them were inside giving the concert of their lives. And no one had to pass a hat: more than 3,700 persons paid...