Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pueblo, Colo., fined $50 for his second traffic violation in a year, Fred Innes Jr. asked, "How can a man be a good driver if the police are always watching...
...Traffic School. In Milwaukee, Leo Stoll was fined $100 after he put a pistol to a cabby's head, said, "If you don't drive carefully, I'm going to kill...
...still pretty funny-the tale of a misogynist farmer who keeps trying to get rid of a rich Athenian lad in love with his daughter. (Solution: the farmer falls down his well, is rescued with the help of the swain, grudgingly hands over his daughter.) Funniest part is the traffic of devout Athenians to the temple of Pan near the farmer's shack; their animal "sacrifices" always turn out to be raucous sheep barbecues with only the bones left for Pan. Horizon's translator (and chief editorial adviser) is Glasgow-born Gilbert Highet, the lively author...
...from the bench has studied the sordid side of narcotics law enforcement and its failures for ten years. For addicts he urges medical treatment, both physical and psychiatric, as well as help in rehabilitating themselves, and long-term doctors' care. Only thus, he argues, can the illicit traffic in marijuana and narcotics, estimated at $400 million a year in underworld profits, be wiped...
MATS' passenger traffic nearly doubled, to 786,841 last year from 440,359 in 1954, and its freight tonnage increased to 249,881 tons last year from 75,173 tons in 1954. On its growing passenger runs, MATS uses 480 Air Force enlisted women as stewardesses, boasts that it flies its military passengers between New York and London at a cost of only $100 while commercial economy-class rates are $257. MATS figures only actual costs of oil, gasoline, etc., does not include the cost of planes and operation...