Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME'S overseas bureaus a correspondent's best friend is often the staff driver. The drivers are local citizens, familiar with the traffic laws, geography and driving habits of the land. But they do more than just drive cars. They are indispensable members of the staff. They run errands and act as interpreters. They get dispatches out over impossible telephone connections. They place airmail packages on planes whose manifests are already made up. In short, they are minor miracle workers...
...nine years ago, has since logged some 300,000 miles and has worked his way through seven staff cars without an accident. He is a particularly prudent driver, says Bureau Chief Frank White, while traveling in Berlin's Red-occupied East sector, where Germans who are caught violating traffic laws have a way of disappearing. For the heavy-traveling Bonn bureau there are three drivers: Wilhelm Hauner, former chauffeur of a Tiger tank in a German Panzer divi sion ; Heinz Koperski, who served in an 88mm. artillery battery; and Bruno Teschke, who serviced Messerschmitts in Czechoslovakia. All have...
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...
Over the gates of the huge (60,000 students) Sorbonne one morning last month, big yellow posters suddenly appeared for all Paris to see: CLOSED FOR LACK OF FUNDS. That same day, teachers and students went out on strike, milled about the streets, blocked traffic, demonstrated in front of the Bourse du Travail. The Sorbonne, however, was not demonstrating alone. Virtually every lycée (secondary school) and university in France had also closed down...
...York area from 1946 to 1951, only 593 went up in the city proper. The great stores, factories, and office buildings are actually changing some suburbs into cities and giving the erstwhile country dwellers a second taste of the city life with all the familiar problems of heavy traffic, congestion, even slums...