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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gapers' Block. Veteran traffic reporters get a thrill out of unsnarling a traffic jam and speeding frustrated motorists on their way. "When I mention an alternative route, I can actually see the traffic swing, and I know they're listening," says Frank Burany of Milwaukee's WTMJ. "A guy has to be clean out of his head not to appreciate it." Often, a watcher cannot do much to unsnarl traffic. Even so, the reports can have a tranquilizing effect on a harassed driver; at least someone knows of his plight and seems to care. After her husband...
...Angeles' KABC hired a pair of chatty girls, blonde Kelly Lange and brunette Lorri Ross, to be traffic spotters. Outfitted in snug, silver pants, the girls quickly mastered the special vocabulary used to describe the chaos beneath them. In the lingo of the traffic reporters, "gapers' block" is a tie-up caused by motorists slowing down to gape at an accident. "Spaghetti bowl" means an intersection where cars habitually pile up. "Carpool kamikazes" refers to autos overloaded with commuters who are not watching where they're going...
Vaulting the Rails. New York City has now been presented with two new and particularly imaginative schemes for using the space over railroad tracks. The first, sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art and designed by a five-man team of New York architects, proposes building over a 37-block length of the New Haven Railroad tracks on upper Park Avenue, from 97th Street, where the tracks emerge from underground, north to the Harlem River...
...demonstrators will hand out leaflets, but there will be no pickets, Miss Flynn said. They plan to stand on the porch of the Office, at 54 Dunster St., and will not block the sidewalk...
Pearl Harbor Day. For Levin, 58, a millionaire New Jersey real estate developer who holds an 11% block of MGM stock (current value: $20 million), it was the second bitter proxy fight against the film company in less than a year. Increasingly critical of management on many matters since his election to the MGM board in 1965, Levin last May forced a stockholders' vote in an unsuccessful effort to block a proposed authorization of additional stock...