Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tourist who decides for Moscow next year will risk his life, not in the dark cells of the Lubianka prison below Dzerzhinsky Square, but in the wildly undisciplined traffic above. Moscow's streets are full of big, fast automobiles, all driven apparently by Sturmovik pilots intent on dive-bombing pedestrians. Or, as a recent visitor put it: "Dodging in and out of lanes, with nary a signal and with wild shouts of profanity at other cars, the Russian driver seems to be recapturing the elation felt by the Cossack of old when he swooped down from the steppes...
...dinner meeting with the municipal planning board and local business leaders to discuss the best way to get prompt action on urban renewal. Many citizens of Cambridge feel that the University and M.I.T. should join the city in setting up a permanent committee to deal with other major problems--traffic, housing, schools, etc.--and to coordinate action now and in the future. "If Harvard, M.I.T. and the city don't work together, we might as well give the whole works back to the Indians," one local businessman said...
...planning board to direct the University's growth and to keep in touch with the City's planners. They are probably unaware that a Massachusetts Hall official is already performing these functions--considering where a new University building would put the least strain on the city's traffic, discussing with City Hall the future of a certain area near Harvard Square, and so forth. Yet with Cambridge's housing and traffic problems as acute as they are, and with both the City and the University contemplating expansion, the administration might very well appoint at least one planning executive to devote...
...City's problems--and consequently Harvard's problems--go beyond the physical considerations of buildings and traffic that might be handled by a planning board. They involve improving schools and recreational facilities throughout the city, eliminating slums, and generally making Cambridge a desirable place for young families--including those of Harvard faculty members-- to live and bring up children. What is needed is a high-level Citizens' Committee that would include representatives of Harvard, M.I.T. and other groups in the city--the kind of University-community project that has served in many American cities to solve civic problems and improve...
...police methods, professor of police administration (1932-37) at the University of California; by his own hand after he told his housekeeper: "I'm going to shoot myself; call the Berkeley police"; in Berkeley, Calif. As Berkeley police chief (1905-32), Vollmer perfected fingerprinting, handwriting analysis and traffic-control techniques, used the new lie detector, was first to put all the cops on the force into cars (earlier he had put them on bicycles), later reorganized the police departments of Los Angeles, Detroit, Havana...