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...present law in Cambridge gives a pedestrian the legal right-of-way oncoming traffic, red lights and policemen. Under the new anti-jaywalking law the pedestrian will lose his legal right-of-way, except at traffic signals and ped crosswalks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Officials Will Enforce Jaywalk Law | 11/20/1962 | See Source »

TIME'S Hong Kong driver is Chang Yu-cheng, 35, who began learning auto mechanics as an apprentice in Shanghai at the age of 15. He considers Hong Kong, with its well-enforced traffic regulations, a much easier place to drive in than Shanghai, with its ped-icab-ricksha-clogged streets. On the other hand, Tokyo traffic, reports Bureau Chief Dwight Martin, is without doubt the most reckless, dangerous and completely unpredictable of any major city in the world. The special peril, he adds, are the taxis - darting, speeding little engines of destruction. The man who braves these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 29, 1954 | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...foiled B.C. breakaways, besides blocking many difficult screen shots. Those three third period scores came: one, after a wild goal mouth scramble; two, after two Crimson men bumped each other out of the play, leaving Corning to face three Eagles alone; and three, after Corning had been trap- ped and pinned outside the crease, while Captain Dusty Burke tried unsuccessfully to hold off the Eagle drive...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: B.C. Hockey Team Utilizes Breaks, Smashes Past Crimson Squad, 5-0 | 12/20/1951 | See Source »

When he began his campaign, there was bovine TB in all states; it ran as high as 80% to 100%. Today there is less than .5% in any state. In the same period the human mortality rate from TB has drop ped from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOARDS & BUREAUS: Man of Faith | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...white, boxlike Department of the Interior Building in Washington was given over to an exhibition of Pioneer Jackson's aged photographs. Admired by public and connoisseurs alike were the vivid detail and panoramic scope of the mountain and forest views that Old Master Jackson had snap ped with his battered, wooden 6½-by-8½ camera in days when photography was scarcely more than a stunt. Best exhibit of all was spry Oldster Jackson himself, stooped and white-bearded but talkative and effervescent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Camera Pioneer | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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