Word: transiting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...only absolutes, and full absolution; Durrell is convinced that the Greeks live "beyond good and evil." The only space that matters to them is the spot they occupy. Asked the distance to a neighboring town, a Corfiote villager would reply with the number of cigarettes smoked in transit. With the reminder that "Poverty is the Tenth Muse" of Greece, Durrell makes the inevitable attempt to define the national character: It "is based on the idea of the impoverished and downtrodden little man getting the better of the world around him by sheer cunning. Add to this the salt...
...general manager of the Metropolitan Transit Authority said yesterday that he would not object to selling the controversial Bennet St. switching and storage yards to the University, if the MTA could find another base of operations and vacate the land...
...Open Transit...
University and Metropolitan Transit authority officials will meet with the Cambridge City Council next Monday to discuss a proposed bus shelter location Harvard Square...
...bill lifts the national minimum to $1.15 in 1961, and another 5? an hour in 1962 and 1963. Among the newcomers: workers in retail or service businesses with annual gross revenue of more than $1,000,000; employees of gas stations grossing $250,000 a year or more; transit workers, certain laundry workers and switchboard operators. Most controversial point in the bill: a clause extending wage floors in certain cases where employees only "affect" (rather than "engage in") interstate commerce. Senate conservatives say this is unconstitutional, would open the door to federal intervention in intrastate commerce...