Word: jam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eternal City has always had an eternal problem: traffic. In Julius Caesar's day it was chariots and wagons jammed axle-to-axle on the cobblestones. Today it is Fiats and Alfa-Romeos bumper-to-bumper in a jam that reaches maximum autosclerosis in Rome's downtown arteries during the holiday shopping season. Caesar solved the problem in his day by imperial edict, banning carts, wagons, coaches and elephants during daylight hours. Last week Rome was trying the same thing on a smaller scale-and ruefully discovering banning Fiats by fiat to be hardly a Caesarian triumph...
Vegas system was in a jam. Almost half of the 29,000 students were on double sessions; annual teacher turnover was a disruptive 33%. Newcomer told the Clark County school board that he would take the post only if given full administrative powers, free from daily meddling by board members. Newcomer promptly shoved aside a group of what he calls "old butts"-political types paid administrative salaries to perform mainly clerical chores. He brought in a "cabinet" of five imaginative administrators, four of them from out of state. He was criticized for paying one assistant $15,000 a year just...
...streets, streets which cry out for little specialty shops and snug restaurants, leave the high-rise mobile visionaries agog. She still can't understand how they accomplished Pru, much less Government Center. Whereas nearly every other major city has a main thoroughfare, a center, which it can color and jam and point to, Boston has a small area of delicate trees and historical graves. There is never any question in a visitor's mind as to where the heart of Boston is. Bawdy Washington Street and arty Newbury are mere auxiliaries. He returns to the Hill, to the Common. Tremont...
...Ranh Bay, destined to be one of the world's biggest ports, will ease the bottleneck when it is completed next year. McNamara last week ordered 10,000 additional logistical and engineering and support troops to Viet Nam to help relieve the jam. Meanwhile, as a Saigon logistics officer puts it, "trying to handle this buildup is like a juggler on a tightrope trying to drink from a firehose...
Return from the Ashes borrows polished Actress Ingrid Thulin from Ingmar Bergman's glittering stable, and puts her to posture in one of those lady-in-a-jam thrillers, impossible to believe but easy to enjoy. With a script that gives her lucid intelligence little to fasten upon, Actress Thulin often seems well beyond the wit's end of the character she plays-a Jewish doctor who returns to Paris after World War II, eager to pick up her successful practice and her ne'er-do-well young husband...