Around midnight, power to the square was cut and the soldiers eased their way down the broad steps to the street.
State media said that Mr. Guevara's body was cremated on Saturday and that his ashes were spread on the broad steps of the University of Havana, where he and Mr. Castro had forged their bond.
At the time, we asked why not carry the fountain and broad steps all the way from street level... to the subway level?
Now the broad steps up from the living room to the kitchen serve as a perch for Eleanor, Malcolm and the family's 13-year-old calico cat, Regina.
Three broad steps at the entrance.
There are three broad steps in the modeling process.
The broad steps were glazed with the wax of thousands of candles.
But outside City Hall, at the bottom of its broad steps, many of the city's rank-and-file workers were crying poverty, complaining that in its best of times the city is paying its workers as if it were the worst.
In essence, the state's topography consists of three broad steps rising westward: the Red River valley (800 to 1,000 feet [250 to 300 metres] above sea level), the Drift Prairie (1,300 to 1,600 feet [400 to 500 metres]), and the Missouri Plateau (the North Dakota portion of the Great Plains, 1,800 to 2,500 feet [550 to 760 metres]).
In the bathroom, a new radiator was cleverly concealed in a glamorous wall of mirrored storage; in the main room, radiators were hidden behind two broad steps leading to the terrace.
