Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...honor of the first anniversary of Ghana's independence, Accra's first traffic lights blinked on. Crowds gathered at street corners far into the night, cheering as cars were brought to a stop by the red and encouraging them to move on the green. At one of the anniversary's innumerable ceremonies, Nkrumah presented his handsome young Egyptian bride Fatia to his countrymen. (They have dubbed her "Mammy Water." the local word for mermaid.) Welcoming such specially invited representatives of "the oppressed peoples of Africa" as Tanganyika's Julius Nyerere, Kenya's Tom Mboya...
...Francisco's KPIX pioneered a campaign for a rapid-transit system in the bay area, plugged it with helicopter shots of traffic jams, views of a comfortable, studio-built commuter-train interior, even bought radio time to catch the ear of harassed motorists...
Projected traffic to the moon is getting heavy. Latest notion for a moon vehicle is the Aerobee M, which Aerojet-General Corp. has just thought up, using available hardware. If given priorities and $30 million, Aerojet says it can hit the moon in less than a year...
...Square. In Moscow, Soviet newspaper Pravda reported that a traffic cop named Pavlov stopped a funeral procession for a minor violation, forced the entire cortege to turn around and follow him to the nearest police station...
...takes the dullest, most ordinary village in England to populate with his monsters. Nothing much noteworthy has happened in Midwich since the Black Death. One day something very odd does happen: every living thing falls into a trance. All who pass through an invisible perimeter pass out. Traffic piles up. Some victims are hauled out by hooks from the edge of this zone of silence: they wake up unharmed. Promptly, of course, official hush-hush seals off Midwich and its sleeping citizenry. After two nights and a day the mysterious influence lifts, but the villagers awake to an even odder...