Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign to force the British out of Gibraltar, Spain has waged a war of pinpricks. First, it refused to grant new permits for Spanish laborers to commute to work on the Rock, thus denying the colony necessary manpower. Next it slowed down auto traffic onto the Rock by insisting on interminable inspections at La Linea...
Spanish checkpoint on the border. Last week Spain dealt the colony the cruelest jab yet. At the border, Spanish police swung two heavy iron gates across the road and turned a key in a rusty padlock, halting all vehicular traffic and overland trade between Gibraltar and the mainland...
...death. What will most interest many Americans, though, is the time it takes to drive the four miles from Manhattan's Battery Park to Times Square: three weeks. Weeks? Today, some people can make it in nearly three hours. But there is nothing intrinsically unbelievable about the figure. Traffic at midday in mid-Manhattan makes slow molasses seem like a moun tain-stream cascade, and the 11½ m.p.h. that horse-drawn carriages could do in 1907 seem like a race at Aqueduct. Slowly but inexorably, the cherished mobility of Americans is being eroded by a growing number...
Robert Sage, speaking for a six-man investor syndicate, said that a twin tower and more parking facilities may be added on top of the parking lot in 1972-1975. The additional construction will depend on the anticipated traffic demand of the Kennedy Library Complex, he said...
...record that is not likely to be broken soon. Just before the Labor Day traffic jam, Pinellas County Prosecutor Alan Williams fired a hail of legal flak at Florida's aerial constables by refusing to prosecute one John C. Winslow Jr., charged with speeding over a bridge-causeway between Tampa and St. Petersburg. The prosecutor declared that he had no other choice because a state statute limits arrests without warrant to offenses committed in the arresting officer's presence. "I'm not criticizing the use of an airplane," explained Williams, "but a police officer [on the ground...