Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There will be changes at home, too. "Folk-art of all kinds has a pleasantly second-class air. Looms should be brought to cottage doors, old men should plait osiers in full view of the traffic, and smithies must have wide-open doors. The riding of bicycles by royalty should be introduced gradually, in an unobtrusive way. Rioting by students at universities is already well under way, but there is still too much namby-pambyism. The use of stones and tear-gas by the respective sides is overdue. One or two professors must be killed." Parliament needs shaking up: "There...
...Fidel's brother, Raul, led his 150 men out of the Sierra del Cristal, 100 miles northeast of the main rebel strongholds. One night at Moa Bay they held the Freeport Sulphur Co.'s $75 million nickel mining project for twelve hours before pulling out. With no traffic moving in or out of Santiago, residents began dipping into hoarded food supplies. The rebels admitted that they were not yet ready to take Santiago by armed assault, and the army seemed in no mood to leave the cities and go hunting in rebel country...
...Americans in Moscow have ever passed the Soviet driving test. Among other things, you have to be approved by a panel of physicians, including an eye doctor, a cardiologist, a back specialist, and one who tests reflexes in the soles of your feet. You have to work out traffic problems with model cars on something that looks like a parchesi board, and prove that you can take apart and mount an engine...
...duty to report that one mosque in Bukhara has been converted into a poolroom, not very handsome, and that Samarkand, the pivot of the old Silk Road to China, has traffic lights more or less like those on Fifth Avenue...
Like a broken traffic light that shows both red and green, U.S. banks are glutted with savings, while their loan departments report a sharp fall-off in new business. Last week President Charles H. Brower of Manhattan's Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne stepped into the money jam, whistled up an adman's notion of creating motion. Advertising has the job of awakening desire, said hard-selling Charlie Brower to an American Bankers Association meeting in Chicago. His advice: let bankers quickly borrow some advertising techniques...