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...Cambridge, at least, the proverbial fast-disappearing pedestrian may soon be joined by a fast-disappearing motorist if cars multiply at the present extravagant rate while parking and traffic facilities remain virtually static...

Author: By Ernest A. Ostro, | Title: Parking: No Backing Out | 10/8/1955 | See Source »

...sometime newscaster, did not bear down too heavily on salvation between the innings. His talks-mostly about perseverance, hope, kindness-had plenty of light moments. When the microphone caught a ballplayer cursing, Pastor Key pointed up an alternative to swearing with the story of the Quaker lady motorist who squelched a blaspheming truck driver with "When thee gets back to thy kennel, I hope thy mother bites thee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God Between Innings | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

Interpretative Reporting. In Sacramento, angry Motorist Ernest M. Blackburn was hauled off to jail after he refused to sign the traffic citation he received for driving too slowly unless Traffic Officer Ernest Jasper agreed to prefix his own signature with "Eager Beaver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 9, 1955 | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...tough policy seems to work best. Last year Los Angeles courts punished as traffic offenders twice as big a proportion of motorists as they did in 1940. Many of the offenders were sentenced to a course in a driver improvement school. Los Angeles has put teeth in the principle that "the pedestrian has the right of way." In most of the U.S., this slogan merely encourages the walker without inhibiting the driver; in Los Angeles, motorists know that the courts will almost always hold the motorist at fault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGHWAYS: Safer | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

Brand Names. In Long Beach, Calif., a few hours after arresting I. W. Harper for drunkenness, police arrested Motorist Henry Ford for driving without a license...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 11, 1955 | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

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