Word: bottleneck
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...Color-television manufacturers so underestimated their market-figuring that it would build as slowly as black and white television did-that they were unable to keep up with sales. Now one bottleneck has been solved with increased production of picture tubes and another by stepping up the output of cabinets. But if anything goes wrong with the set, the owner will soon discover that there is a drastic shortage of people...
...Traffic Director insists that even the abbreviated pattern has helped traffic flows around Harvard, but critics feel that cars, even if they move faster for awhile, still get caught in the same old bottleneck in Harvard Square. Complaining letters flow in the Cambridge Chronicle. Even poets take their crack at Rudolph. In April, a poem by a senior citizen and longtime Cantabrigian" appeared in the Chronicle. In this poem Paul Revere, on a second ride, got lost in the Traffic Director's latest pattern. Rudolph was moved to respond in kind, and an exchange of poems began in the paper...
...degree envisioned by the Bundy panel. Most of the plans have kept power in central boards, delegating only limited authority to district superintendents. The aim has been to give in dividual schools, and sometimes citizens' advisory boards, a more forceful voice at central headquarters while avoiding a bottleneck of minor decision-making...
Stokes began to match Taft detail for detail. He promised to combat the crime rate (up 14% last year) by increasing the police patrol-car force one-third, expand the airport with already available fill, eliminate a particular traffic bottleneck on Baltic Road ("the Baltic Blockade"), which, conjectured Stokes, costs a 20-year commuter 100 days off his life. He announced plans for an inaugural ball to raise money for clothing for children of relief families. Even with a skillful advertising campaign, a large and capable biracial campaign staff and a regiment of 2,000 door knockers, Stokes...
...Dead End. The problem of moving this vast torrent of people between cities is difficult enough. But the real headache is handling the flow from city to airport and in the airports themselves. As William Pereira, master planner for the Los Angeles Airport Commission, puts it: "The real bottleneck in the jet age is not in the air but on the ground. We must break the ground barrier...