Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paulistas act and dress accordingly, favoring dark suits and somber miens for all occasions. When he is not at one of the city's 500 sports clubs, Sao Paulo's favorite recreation, the Paulista will usually be in his car fighting Latin America's worst traffic jam (416,000 vehicles on the road). He can also pick from any one of 464 nightclubs, nine times more than Rio, or from some 1,000 restaurants, more than in all the rest of Brazil...
...warships patrolling the Gulf of Tonkin. Most of the Russians' oil and machinery land on Haiphong's always crowded docks; even the nearby Chinese ship most of their aid to Haiphong rather than send it overland. Since February, there has been a change in the pattern of traffic at Haiphong; fewer Chinese ships are arriving and, as if by agreement between the two countries, more Soviet ships are taking their place. In what reflects a deepening crisis in the North's agriculture, the Russians in the first three months of 1967 have unloaded almost 75,000 tons...
...Laos does not want U.S. or any other Western help in the matter, "because this would mean more war for Laos, which has known little else since 1939." He said that all that Laos could do was already being done: daily bombing runs by the Laotian air force against traffic using the trail. What concerned the Premier more was the Pathet Lao threat to the rest of Laos. "The 15,000 Pathet Lao are a well-disciplined political party, the only political party in this country," he said. Still, much of their strength would evaporate, as would most of Laos...
...Tulsa traffic cop called it the biggest traffic jam since Dick Nixon's 1960 campaign visit. Close to 25,000 people -in 10,000 cars-turned out when Evangelist Billy Graham, 48, came to town to help fellow evangelist and millionaire, Oral Roberts, 49, dedicate his new Oral Roberts University, whose philosophy of education is "to develop the mind, the body-and the soul." Set on a 450-acre campus in suburban Tulsa, the modernistic school already has an enrollment of 546 students, mostly children of Oral Roberts' "Pentecostal Holiness" followers. And Gra ham predicted a vast spread...
...draft card. Even after he lost an appeal and the Supreme Court refused to review the case (TIME, Feb. 24), Miller refused to get a card. Two weeks ago, he joined an anti-war demonstration at selective service headquarters in Washington, sat in the front doorway and blocked traffic until police carried him away. Before the show, he made sure of news coverage by handing out a press release saying that his actions were aimed at making sure that Judge Tyler would send him to prison...