Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wives, sacks, cats, kits and other factors in the traffic jam on the road to St. Ives had nothing on the entourage that follows the President of the U.S. Last week when Dwight Eisenhower left on a brief vacation to limber up his midwinter kinks in Palm Springs, Calif., his departure resembled a middle-sized troop movement. In addition to his wife and mother-in-law, the President was accompanied by 22 Secret Service men, a personal party of 35 secretaries, aides and servants, and 24 reporters, photographers and radio-TV men, was joined in Palm Springs by 50 additional...
...Army's Arms. McCarthy's week opened in Manhattan's Federal Courthouse when New York City Policewoman Ruth Eagle appeared as a witness before McCarthy, an unruffled chairman despite a traffic accident the night before.* Policewoman Eagle, who was assigned to join the Communist Party and was shot at when Communists discovered her police connection, testified that she had known Dr. Irving Peress and his wife as "full-fledged members" of the Communist Party, had sat with them in party cell meetings. Then Dentist Peress took the witness stand and refused, on the ground of selfincrimination...
That evening White departed from the text of a prepared speech to tell members of Chicago's Traffic Club: "You probably have read about the myth that New York Central's board is ... Morgan-controlled . . . One of our . . . board members is George Whitney, who is chairman of J. P. Morgan & Co.* George Whitney is away on a cruise, and he could take no part in the deliberations ... in regard to . . . Young's demand...
With automobile production far outstripping road building, the states have almost uniformly recognized the obligation they have to protect their citizens from traffic hazards. Compulsory liability insurance is a partial answer, but in many cases it does not go far enough. In Massachusetts, the defects in the present program are obvious: no provision is made for a driver's accident record in computing his premiums, and rates are decided individually for each locality, instead of making uniform charges throughout the state...
...Score. In Mexico City, Felipe Ladelski flunked his driver's test when he ran over a traffic officer and broke...