Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...driven back to the White House, the President had reason to feel happy about the imminent solution of at least one of his minor problems: what to do about the traffic tie-ups that usually accompany his trips around town-and especially along his much-traveled route to and from Washington National Airport. Reason for the tangle: all normal traffic pouring in and out of the main thoroughfares that Ike travels has to be cut off until the presidential motorcade goes by. Ike, himself impatient of transportation delays, has often expressed regrets that other motorists must be inconvenienced...
...urged on by his personal pilot and Air Force aide, Lieut. Colonel Bill Draper, but at first actively opposed by the Secret Service (which had similar objections before Ike began to use two-engined instead of four-engined planes for short hauls), the President has wanted to beat his traffic problem by using a helicopter to take him directly from the White House to the airport-and even as far as his Gettysburg farm. The White House last week announced that Ike had given the green light for helicopter test flights to and from the White House's south...
...visits, tricked out in mutton-chop whiskers, cockaded tam-o'-shanter, green kilt and dagger in the stocking. He pursues his ghosts with gusto that may well alarm the shyer shades, as well as some readers. To those who are under the impression that the church forbids traffic in ghosts, he explains that the prohibition is against calling them up by necromancy or seance (as did Saul with the Witch of Endor), not against seeing them. Author Leslie limits his Ghost Book to "instances of ghosts, apparitions and messages from the other or twilight world which have come under...
Maybe they learn it jaywalking across traffic, or in the subway, where a fleet foot and a sharp elbow mean a rush-hour seat. Wherever they pick it up, New Yorkers nourish an abiding admiration for the man who gets there in a hurry. The hustler is their hero, so every winter they set aside certain Saturday nights to cheer the hustlers in the great indoor track meets at Madison Square Garden...
...Glass Courthouse. In Pontiac, Mich., 13 days after he was sworn in as probation officer for traffic offenders, Leo F. Coyle resigned, following the disclosure that in 1956, after he received one ticket for faulty headlights, one for running a red light and three for speeding, his license had been suspended...