Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then president of the Rockefeller Foundation. Gardner usually came home with a fat briefcase, went to work soon after dinner. Checka recalls that "when we were children, we always went to sleep to the sound of a typewriter." Gardner made a point of placing his desk "right in the traffic pattern for everything in the house" so as not to miss anything...
...development, set up a program creating a county-agent-style welfare service to help deprived or undereducated city dwellers, increase middle-income housing construction, and float a $2 billion bond issue to improve New York's transportation systems-both transstate highways and the critical mass transit network in traffic-clogged New York City. Minnesota's Le Vander proposed a Metropolitan Service Council that would amalgamate the management of problems including everything from city sewage disposal to mass transit to parkland development around the 1,600,000-population area of Minneapolis-St. Paul...
...zippy little vehicles provide all sorts of extra benefits. The putt-putting noise daunts would-be lawbreakers; the potential speed (60 m.p.h.) and mobility enable wheezy cops to outrun juvenile delinquents, mount sidewalks or even bounce up shallow steps to bypass traffic. For surprise, two-scooter teams patrol their beats in ever-changing patterns; for instant contact, each man carries a portable two-way radio. Not long ago, a scooter cop and a prowl-car team simultaneously got word of a burglary; riding on sidewalks, the scooter man beat the car by seven minutes and nabbed the burglar...
...Safety Front. Another complication for the automakers is that they will be hit on Jan. 31 with the first set of federal safety standards, which will be mandatory for all 1968 models. Manufacturers last week notified National Traffic Safety Agency Administrator Dr. William Haddon Jr. that they would be unable to meet several requirements unless they are modified. Among the standards troubling some companies...
Until recently, most urban universities tended to stand aloofly apart from the cities in which they lived. But the schools' hunger for more land, the traffic and housing problems they create, have sharpened old town-gown tensions - and have also made administrators more conscious of the fact that their institutions may possess the intellectual resources to help create what Hester calls "a renaissance in urban life." University of Pennsylvania's President Gaylord P. Harnwell believes that the modern university "is not beholden to any political or economic master," and thus is "the last major institution of urban life...