Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...firebugs to save an irreplaceable book, urged the youth to "take it home if you wish, but in the name of the Holy Virgin, don't burn it!" "What do you think we are, thieves?" snapped the youth, and threw the volume on the fire. Outside, policemen detoured traffic around the flaming $4,500,000 building, but made no move to stop the arson...
...darkness fell, they clotted along Atlantic Boulevard near the ocean, blocking traffic, emitting their distinctive cries, and sniffing the heady air of freedom. Dawn-and every subsequent dawn-brought proof that they had not been idle. Greek letters appeared on the municipal water tower, coconuts crashed through windows, a dead shark materialized in the Horizon Hotel's swimming pool, and two students were pinched for swimming in the buff. At 1 :30 on Easter morning a car driven by a boy from Ohio careened into the wrong lane and hit a girl from Missouri and a boy from Delaware...
...California, Balboa and nearby Balboa Island (combined pop. 4,873) were inundated by an even greater flood of noisy youth-35,000 boys & girls from schools in the Los Angeles area. For ten days they swam, sailed, necked, danced, drank, clogged traffic with their cars. Up the coast at Palos Verdes, a youthful promoter got a big crowd of youngsters at a dollar a head to watch a gasoline-drenched jalopy set afire and pushed off a cliff...
While orange groves were being uprooted to make way for suburbia, and new six-lane freeways reached out to ease the swollen traffic arteries, one of the few unchanging Los Angeles landmarks over the past 14 years has been its mayor, Fletcher...
...involved in fatal auto accidents in 1951 were under 25). But as the rates went up, independent auto-insurance firms began cutting their rates and snatching business from the large companies. Last week a number of big companies got ready to meet the competition by concentrating on the worst traffic offenders of all: young drivers...