Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capital city of San Juan (pop. 400,000) sits on two islands between a bay and a lagoon. Its sights are blue-bricked streets, ancient masonry, white skyscrapers, rain-dappled, flamboyant trees, traffic jams of Fords, Chevies, Opels, Consuls, Taunuses and Vespa scooters. In the old city, hand-printed poems of amor on sale at 25? flutter from a clothespin in a dowdy doorway next to a modern furniture store whose neon sign shouts: "Use Nuestro Layaway Plan." But San Juan also has festering El Fanguito and neighboring swampland slums of stilted crackerbox shanties, partly cleared but still the home...
Held up by Middlesex traffic while driving Princess Anne to Windsor Great Park, bandanna-topped Queen Elizabeth II checked her right of way like any Levittown housewife meeting the 5:12, later dressed up in jeweled finery to catch the looth anniversary concert...
...hope the customers would come to them. Last week, as the strike entered its third week, the customers were still coming in droves. Long lines patiently queued up all day in the lobbies of the Philadelphia Bulletin and Inquirer in downtown Philadelphia. In Camden, just across the Delaware River, traffic jammed bumper to bumper around the Courier-Post's building to buy copies from vendors, who have included, on occasion. President-Publisher Mrs. Frances G. Stretch, her three children and granddaughter...
...nation's major airports last week, big new radar installations of spinning antennas and scanning screens were being readied for use as part of a $13 million radar network that will eventually help control air traffic around 27 major U.S. cities. On Wall Street many a brokerage house tuned in with its own radar to take a reading on the firm responsible for the network: Raytheon Manufacturing Co. of Waltham, Mass. They liked what they saw so well that Raytheon stock moved to an alltime high of $30 a share...
Hedge Hopper. In Hot Springs, Ark., when State Trooper Glen Minton stopped a speeder and asked him why he was displaying on his windshield the campaign stickers of two rival candidates for municipal judge, the man said: "With my traffic record, I can't afford to be wrong...