Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impersonality is reinforced by its own pecking order. Since the front-line patrol-car force has the lowest status, it tends to consist of men who have failed promotion or who have been demoted. Rookies learn that the way out of the car is to write more traffic tickets and exceed their informal quotas (based on anticipated crime) in making "field interrogations" and misdemeanor arrests. Civil rights leaders argue that police sometimes overexercise their discretionary powers by hitting minority groups for marginal offenses. In slum areas, critics claim, such zeal is often self-defeating: for the poor, unpaid traffic tickets...
...manager. A customer gawked at his size (6 ft. 4 in., 210 Ibs.), suggested that he become a policeman. So did several cops who stopped in for gas. Reddin signed up in 1941 as a $2,040-a-year patrolman, became, in turn, a detective sergeant, adjutant to the traffic chief, lieutenant in charge of training, a much respected captain of the Watts division, deputy chief and head of the technical-services bureau...
...prolonged dispute between the Government and private industry came to a truce of sorts last week, when the new National Traffic Safety Agency issued its first set of federal automobile-safety standards. Acting Under Secretary of Commerce (for transportation) Lowell K. Bridwell described the 95 pages of rules and specifications as "reasonable, practicable and appropriate." The auto manufacturers, responding with a discreet public silence and a private sense of relief, seemed to agree...
...roar of publicity over such super-commercial airplanes as the SST and Boeing's 747 jumbo jet has largely drowned out the hum of a smaller but still important market. Lured by the economy of jet planes and lifted by their earnings from increased traffic, regional airlines around the U.S. have been moving into the jet age, casting off decrepit DC-3s and aging Convairs, which gave them their start. British Aircraft Corp., with its BAC-111, and both Boeing and Douglas have tapped the regional market with small, fast jet airplanes designed for short runs and shorter runways...
When a century-old Manhattan building collapsed last month, killing five demolition workers and snarling midtown traffic for blocks, the N.Y. World Journal Tribune rerouted its delivery trucks by signaling them with an electronic paging device. Later in the same day, the N.Y. Times used a similar instrument to keep in touch with a photographer covering a New York Central train derailment in Harlem...