Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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grim, bloody and unremitting war. For the men in the field, the 48 hours of Christmas lull was hardly worth writing home about. Infantrymen and Marines kept up patrols on the ground; Navy and Coast Guard boats maintained the watch on coastal and river traffic; pilots of jets, observation planes and helicopters flew reconnaissance missions north and south of the DMZ separating the two Viet Nams. The Allies counted 122 shooting contacts with the enemy. Most of them were minor, but on Christmas Eve, one bout between Marines in Quang Nam and the Viet Cong lasted for several hours...
...secondhand-car lot," with a capacity of some 500 trucks. Both had been hit for the first time on Dec. 2; and both were worth a second try, particularly Yen Vien, the country's largest rail choke point, handling one-third of the nation's military traffic...
...from two private schools, he nevertheless managed to acquire a diploma from Hotchkiss, a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in art history from Princeton, with a three-year stint as a Marine Corps lieutenant in between to sober him up. The aristocratic, 6-ft. 3-in. Hoving (who often beats traffic by buzzing around town on his motorcycle) is still brash enough to have called Robert Moses' World's Fair Unisphere "a great big heavy clunk" and battled A. & P. Millionaire Huntington Hartford over his desire to encroach on Central Park with a café restaurant...
Fort Wayne, Ind., is a base for 19 important industries, but the visiting businessman who attempts to reach them by air often has a hard time-because Fort Wayne, in spite of its population of 162,000, does not generate sufficient air traffic to maintain a busy commercial schedule. TWA two years ago dropped it as a scheduled stop; United and Delta still serve the city, but outbound travelers have to scramble for seats on planes already filled before they reach the city's Baer Field. The result is that Fort Wayne, in an age when most businessmen...
...Outwardly, Jordan's frontier with Israel seemed calm enough. Gunfire along the border had died away. In Jordan's frontier towns of Nablus, Hebron and Ramallah, old men puffed their snake-stemmed hookahs outside coffeehouses, and traffic beeped its way back to normal. But beneath the surface, tensions were tight. "The whole place," said one of King Hussein's former Cabinet ministers, "is ready to blow...