Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fuggerei, as the walled district came to be known, was 80% destroyed in an Allied bombing raid in October 1944. But it has been rebuilt in the old style-a quiet place of little yellow-and-green medieval houses, where vehicular traffic and "noisy trades" are prohibited, and where the four gates are locked at 10 p.m. nightly, as they have been since 1521. Anyone who stays out too late must...
...them, "why do you drive such big cars? You don't need a monster to go to the drugstore for a package of hairpins. Think of the gas bills!" No audience is too small for him. Caught in a taxi in the middle of a St. Louis traffic jam, he lectured the captive driver: "Now if we all drove small cars, we'd have a lot less trouble like this." His parting tip as he abandoned the cab and sprinted off on foot: "Next time try a Rambler...
...since the model T." Others take their pleasure in less rhapsodic praise. Women like it because its compact size (15.9 ft. long, 6 ft. wide, 108-in. wheelbase v. 17.3 ft. long, 6.4 ft. wide, 118-in. wheelbase for the standard Ford) makes it easy to handie in traffic, easy to park. The Rambler's unitized frame construction, in which body and frame are welded into a single unit (Ford, G.M. and Chrysler will also use this construction in their compact cars), eliminates most of the rattles and squeaks that often occur in other cars. With detachable front fenders...
Last week the London County Council approved a radical plan for the reconstruction of Piccadilly Circus, the proud "hub of the universe." The hub has become a traffic block. To solve this problem, the circus (or circle) will be made into a rectangle, and the Edwardian buildings now surrounding it will be replaced by boxlike modern structures on which advertising signs will be part of the design, instead of being grafted on, as at present. The famed center statue of Eros, god of love, which makes the traffic go round, will still be there but no longer the center...
Sometimes it seems as if the Western democracies, which have to make up their minds in public, are kept united only by a steady traffic in airborne statesmen. Last week Europe's airspace was crowded with the comings and goings of worried diplomats. Of them all, none was so busy as Britain's indefatigable Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who in the space of three weeks had visited Moscow, Paris and Bonn, and this week was scheduled to go to Washington and Ottawa as well...