Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Referring to the light on the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Holyoke Street, Councilor Al Vellucci, author of the resolution, claimed that much of the traffic congestion in Harvard Square is caused by students and professors who keep pushing the button "all day long" and halting cars...
Vellucci contended that since the lights were installed primarily for the protection of students, the universities' policemen should be stationed at these intersections to direct pedestrian and automobile traffic...
Harvard, Radcliffe and M .I. T. will have to use their own policemen to direct traffic at intersections where traffic lights are controlled by pushbuttons, if City Manager John J. Curry '19 acts on a proposal passed by a voice vote at yesterday's session of the Cambridge City Council...
Marshal Sarit's bloodless coup so surprised Bangkok diplomats that most of them heard of it at breakfast the morning after. Shortly before midnight Marshal Sarit's brand-new U.S. tanks and weapons carriers had taken up positions controlling Bangkok's key traffic arteries. Efficient little Thai infantrymen, troops of Sarit's crack 1st Division, set up mortar and machine-gun emplacements, and over the radio came the first of a series of orders from Sarit and the new government...
...Councilor, however, to be concerned only with MTA buses. Councilor Alfred Vellucci said last night that the order was not at all directed toward Harvard students, but that it was aimed at "the heavy congestion in Harvard Square," and passed in an attempt to "stop all buses violating traffic laws there...