Word: gnanaolivu
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...week.won a privileged peek through their rearview mirrors into a magic world of wheels where things obviously go the other way. Home again in Madras, India (pop. 1,500.000) after a 50-day tour of Washington. D.C., New York City, Los Angeles and eleven other U.S. cities. Captain Dinakar Gnanaolivu. chairman of the Madras City Improvement Trust, summed up his impressions of U.S. traffic in Madras' daily Hindu...
Pondering the orderly flow of U.S. motor cars ("commonly called 'automobiles"). Captain Gnanaolivu found that it was due partly to an unusual practice; i.e., roads are used only by motorists and sidewalks only by pedestrians. But above and beyond this mutually exclusive assignment of territory, the captain in 50 days discovered an ethical explanation that had a genuine looking-glass tinge: "All this is done spontaneously, with an inner urge in every man and woman to obey traffic regulations and not because a policeman is there to book them...
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