Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...firmament than those that gleam on the marquees on Broadway or off. Last week Philadelphia was host to a new drama of serious intent. As the playgoer enters the Theater of the Living Arts, he hears a soundtrack from nature as raucous and insidious as the din of city traffic. Cockatoos screech and hippopotamuses snort. Over the stage stretch tangled plastic vines. On the walls are murky film blowups of lions, elephants and monkeys. A combination of bamboo palace and automobile graveyard, the set is a raked topography of danger, containing in one scene a Daliesque montage of severed human...
...howling blast began Thursday morning. By midafternoon, Chicago's streets were clogged by wind-whipped snowdrifts and stalled autos. With traffic at a standstill and visibility at zero, tens of thousands of marooned workers had to spend the night in firehouses, hospitals and hotels. On the Calumet Expressway, 1,000 stranded motorists joined hands so that they would not get lost, snaked their way to nearby homes. A 50-year-old woman suffered a fatal heart attack on a stalled bus at 5 a.m. Friday. Not until six hours later could snowbound police remove her body...
...Kuwaitis have had about the same difficulty adapting to elections as some of them have had in switching from camels to cars; the country has one of the world's highest traffic-accident rates. Last week, the tiny Persian Gulf sheikdom, whose fabled oil brings it some $750,000,000 in annual royalties, held the second parliamentary election in its history. Everyone knew that Kuwait was ruled by Sheik Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, 51, who became the Amir when his brother died a little over a year ago. Nevertheless, there was plenty of politicking for seats...
...only to be grounded along with four other airlines during the 43-day machinists' strike. TWA wound up the year with earnings down 40%, to $30 million, but it still plans to keep up its $1-a-year dividends. It has good reason: barring any more interruptions, airline traffic should rise 17% this year. > Texas Instruments, whose profits have grown at an average rate of 31 % a year since 1946, did it again, with earnings up 36%, to $34 million. Still, Chairman Patrick E. Haggerty has some small
...statement of crimes" required by the National Defense Education Act needlessly singles out students as objects of suspicion and distrust. It demands that any undergraduate or graduate applying for NDEA money report convictions of all crimes and traffic violations punishable by more than a $25 fine. No other recipients of government largesse -- farmers or social security beneficiaries, for example -- are obligated to sign such a statement...