Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been following the canal situation for seven years. Yet as he reported this week, his reflections went back 35 years to the time when, as a boy in a U.S. Merchant Marine T-2 tanker, he first traveled the waterway. The canal, he notes, was then bustling with wartime traffic, and the city of Colón flourished as one of the fleshpots of the Latin world. Today it is a depressed town. Reaching even further back, New Zealander Diederich remembers stories told of his wife's Haitian grandfather, who worked on the construction of the canal...
...teased for being fat, and he stuck to Bronx Community College for only one year. He spent some of his free time with the New York City police auxiliary service. This did not involve training in the use of firearms or crime detection. He was taught how to direct traffic, administer first aid and perform other rescue-related duties. Fellow trainees considered him introverted but not particularly reclusive...
...civil rights group even from marching on the public sidewalks in the allwhite Marquette Park area. Authorities also passed the word they would grant no parade permits there this month to Jewish, Nazi or black groups, because Marquette Park is already booked up with sport and youth events, and "traffic problems" would result. More important, as the Marquette area's deputy chief of patrol Charles Pepp admitted, "a march could very well precipitate a major race riot...
...controllers sent to Oshkosh from other Midwestern airports to keep the participants out of one another's struts, the convention was not only the "world's largest aviation event" but also the world's biggest traffic jam. Chicago's O'Hare, the world's busiest airport, averages some 2,000 landings and takeoffs a day; there were more than 4,800 daily at Oshkosh. Since many of the planes were not even equipped with radios, the controllers were forced to rely on red smoke signals. Even those flyers with radios were not much better...
...trip from tawdry Times Square to the tidy Upper East Side of Manhattan takes only about ten minutes in light traffic. Toward 11 most nights, a driver in a blue and white van plies that route, delivering into the arms of a uniformed doorman a single pristine early City edition of tomorrow's New York Times?still warm from the presses, still faintly redolent of ink and hot lead. The newborn newspaper is quickly whisked to an upper floor, where a horrible fate awaits...