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Traffic engineers have learned much about easing congestion by lubricating traffic flow with such devices as one-way streets and timed stop lights, but road building helps too. Freeways carry three times as much traffic as ordinary streets, with one-fifth the accident rate. When San Francisco recently opened a 1.3-mile portion of a new freeway, the accident rate on crosshatching streets for two miles on either side dropped...
There are ten evacuation routes from Cambridge to the north and west and 15 gathering points in the City, Burke said. All traffic would be one-way and though cars could enter at any point, none could cross over or switch routes...
Back in the hey-day of the New Deal, it was almost the height of fashion for bright young Harvard men to go trooping off to Washington upon graduation. But today the traffic is no longer all one-way. In an educational version of "massive retaliation," steadily increasing numbers of career government servants are converging on Cambridge every year, most of them to pursue studies of one kind or another at the Littauer School of Public Administration...
Bulls & Bears. No one in Wall Street last week thought that the stock market had become a one-way street. But for the moment, at least, the bulls were roaring. One bullish factor, paradoxically, was supplied by the bears. It was the near record short-interest figure of 3,100,000 shares (the number of shares sold short in anticipation of a market dip). Though much of this represented investors protecting long-term gains, any decline was bound to be cushioned by the shorts buying to cover their sales...
...first scheduled commercial flight to Europe by way of the Arctic. By flying a great circle route, instead of across the continent to New York, SAS cuts the Los Angeles-Copenhagen route by 459 miles and the flying time by 2 hrs. 25 min. (The regular one-way fare of $574 saves the passenger $40; $970 round trip is $70 less.) Cruising at 300 m.p.h. at about 17,000 ft. altitude, SAS made only two stops on the 5,800-mile flight to take on gas. The plane let down at Winnipeg and at Greenland's Sondre Stromfjord, where...