Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...civilian personnel, switchboard operators, clerks, the motorized policemen, and the men who operate the radios all came off the beats. The detectives, the men on safety patrol, and the men working in the juvenile department all came off the walking beats. They need men to regulate traffic. Now I'm not saying that all these departments aren't valuable and they aren't doing a good job. But all these men have come off the beats, and they haven't had any replacements. In a tight, congested city like Cambridge you need street policemen on beats. In the old days...
...Traffic penalties are so severe that Aramco's seven U.S. lawyers and a staff of "government relations" men spend most of their time trying to settle them. A 20 m.p.h. speed limit is rigidly enforced even on desert roads...
...foreign correspondent should be without one." Adds Senior Editor John Osborne (20,000 miles), who is a veteran Far East reporter: "I'd rather fly 5,000 miles over water with a reliable airline than walk five blocks through midtown Tokyo's incredibly crowded, noisy, freewheeling traffic...
...perched on the girders of a half-completed traffic ramp on Manhattan's lower East Side one afternoon last week, Louis Sarno, a sinewy construction foreman, saw a big-city tragedy in the making. Directly across traffic-jammed South Street an apartment window stood open. As Sarno watched, a two-year-old boy climbed on the sill, teetered in fright four floors above the sidewalk. Sarno yelled at two gardeners working across the street. They did not hear him. The 41-year-old foreman wasted no more time...
...turned and sprinted precariously along 100 yards of bare girders to the nearest ladder, scrambled down it to the street, dived through the traffic stream and raced 100 yards back to the apartment building. He was below the window just as the boy-Francis Xavier Lamadrid-lost his balance and came sailing down. Sarno braced himself. Frightened women spectators screamed. But seconds later, with the force of his fall broken, the child was safe in Sarno's brawny arms. Astounded passersby, screened from the catch by a billboard, assumed that Sarno had caught...