Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...African trade with Rhodesia will have to be stopped. If the Vorster government proves recalcitrant, a U.N. force would have to patrol the South African coast, inspect ships, and allow through only what is deemed essential for South Africa. It might even be necessary to clamp down on railway traffic. Such a project would be frightening for Vorster to consider. A successful economic boycott of Rhodesia might convince the world community that something can be done about South Africa...
...answer may prove to be a new "countdown" traffic light that has been tested over an eight-month period in Abilene, Texas, and cut traffic accidents at a busy intersection by 44% . It looks like an ordinary traffic-light signal head. But twelve seconds before it is due to change, the amber light blinks a count down from nine to one at one-second intervals in 10-in.-high numerals that are visible for 200 ft. It then glows steadily amber for three more seconds before the signal turns...
...were skeptical when we first tried it," says Abilene City Traffic Engineer Russell Taylor. "I thought it might make the motorist speed up to get through the intersection, but it has worked exactly the opposite. The light takes the pressure off the driver during that critical moment of approach." As a result of the test, Abilene will spend $5,900 for three more signals from its home-town inventor, James L. R. Hines, a longtime safety engineer for the Shell Oil Co. Houston plans to in stall 73 of them. And Hines, who spent nine years developing the system...
...aged five and 15, are kidnaped and sold to a Paris bordello, after which a band of reformers, led by Lenton's wife and the Salvation Army, cleans up Great Britain-never envisioning that Piccadilly and Soho would one day witness the blossoming of newer and gamier sex-traffic jams...
Cloete writes with a wagonload of wooden cliches, a compelling wealth of historical detail, and a too, too tumescent indignation. He is a leading member of Britain's Anti-Slavery Society, and he provides an appendix showing that white-slave traffic is still surprisingly busy today. All the same, Cloete's outrage would be a little more convincing if his rapes, orgies, flagellations and assorted other perversions were described with a little less prurience...