Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vast physical and psychic differences between Manhattan and some of the leafy streets of its sister borough of Queens, and between Queens and Scarsdale, and between Scarsdale and Levittown, and between all of them and Duluth, Minn. But they are all "urban," and they must all contend with traffic jams, parking, pollution, shortages of hospitals, parks, police and even water, usually with inadequate schools and spreading slums, and always with taxes and America's weird tangle of municipal jurisdictions...
...collisions have taken 669 lives. With the number of private aircraft now at 104,000, compared with 83,000 five years ago, commercial airports are so congested that some Congressmen have proposed banning the private planes from commercial-liner airports altogether. The House Commerce Committee scheduled air-traffic hearings for this week as a result of the Hendersonville tragedy...
...fact of urban life. The memories of bizarre multiple murders linger in the mind-13 people dead in Austin from a sniper's rifle, eight nurses in Chicago killed by a demented drifter. The recollection of the Kennedy assassination remains part of the scene. A burgeoning, largely uncontrolled traffic in guns has put firearms into some 50 million American homes, many of their owners insisting that the weapons are needed for self-defense. In the movies and on television, murder and torture seem to be turning Americans into parlor sadists. A recent trend on the stage is the "theater...
...ease this new traffic problem the CAC wants the MBTA to transform access tunnels to the Bennett St. MBTA yards (the JFK Library sight) into walk-ways leading to the main station under the Square. These tunnels pass beneath Brattle St. and could provide extra entrances to the subway for both shoppers and library visitors...
...part of the city. It attracts mostly old men from the neighborhood who come in around non stay till five, come back at seven and stay till closing. The old TV bought years ago to encourage business after a new highway isolated the place from traffic, is never turned on. Once in a while a stranger will come, attracted by the pasteboard sign hanging in the window: "McNulty's--Next to the railroad potato yards, come in and meet the real spuds." The real spuds always have something to say, and its always about politics...