Word: subways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passenger, Baron Edouard-Jean Empain, 40, was the boyish-looking scion of a Belgian family that built the Paris subway system at the turn of the century, and now, with Empain as overseer, controls a French conglomerate comprising 150 companies with 130,000 employees and annual sales of $4.7 billion. The kidnap vehicles and the Peugeot were found abandoned. Was Empain the victim, in the current European terminology, of a kidnap à 1'italienne, engineered by professional criminals purely for ransom, or of a kidnap à l'allemande, pulled off by terrorists trying to force the release...
...approximately $500 million project to extend the subway's Red Line to the Alewife Brook parkway, by way of Davis Square and Porter Square. The federal Department of Transportation will fund 80 per cent of the effort...
...Harvard station will have an entrance in front of the Harvard Coop as well as in front of the Cambridge Savings Bank. The street between the bank and the station's kiosk will be removed, and replaced with trees and an entrance to the subway. Traffic will be rerouted to the north...
...MBTA hopes eventually to extend the red line beyond Alewife Brook to Arlington Center and Arlington Heights, but the federal Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA) has not yet approved that project. The UMTA has asked the MBTA to "re-study lower cost alternatives" to a subway extension into Arlington...
...catching costumes. A swim through a million pounds of warm mud in a collapsing New York City subway. Those are some of the drawbacks to playing the Soviet astrophysicist heroine of Meteor, a $16 million disaster film. For Natalie Wood, who slipped into a comfy pants outfit and posed for a picture session off the Hollywood set, the good news is that she was forced to improve her Russian for the role. Nee Natasha Za-charenko, the daughter of Russian immigrants to San Francisco, she used to speak her mother's tongue "with the sophistication of a ten-year...