Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Costa Rica stops the driver at the border with a seven-mile gap near the scene of January's revolutionary fighting, but work now going on should open this stretch to traffic by May 1. At the other end of the Costa Rican sector, after a breathtaking mountain drive offering glimpses of two oceans, the highway dwindles into nothing more than 134 miles of lines on a surveyor's map. Current construction...
...hear Billy celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Word of Life Hour (Saturdays, 7:30 E.S.T., ABC), and they had filled the Garden well before the meeting began. In the street outside, another crowd of several thousand listened via loudspeakers, while 120 police and plainclothesmen coped with clogged traffic and pickpockets. In the corridors around the arena, the refreshment stands kept their beer and cigarettes out of the way, sold only coffee, soft drinks and hot dogs...
...postwar highway system), away from Purdue University. Under Professor Lingo, the state police force has been increased, patrolmen have been freed from housekeeping duties so that they can spend more time on patrol, and enforcement and education have been stepped up. Results during 1954: a 58% increase in moving traffic arrests, 8,000 fewer traffic accidents and 204 fewer deaths. From this improved record, highway users have saved $22 million in accident losses and $10 million a year in auto insurance rates...
...Paris, where the Folies-Bergère ladies wear no blouses and streetwalkers are a major traffic menace, the puritanical elders of the famed Comédie-Française banned a production of Mrs. Warren's Profession, George Bernard Shaw's play about a British prostitute who at least solicited business in private. Rubbing more salt into the wounded realism of France's Shaworshippers, the Comédieans proclaimed that Mrs. Warren was "amoral," and her saga was "very bad and boring...
Vested Interest. In Lansing, Mich., after State Representative Manning Hathaway Jr. denounced parking meters because "they are extortion, they are unAmerican, they are totalitarian," the Detroit traffic court noted Hathaway had collected 38 parking tickets in nine years...