Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minutes before ten o'clock, it is dark, it is August, and it is hot. The sounds are of traffic rushing down one of Birmingham, Alabama's major arteries a hundred yards away. The occasional car that squeals around the corner and drives northward flashes past groups of dark figures lounging on rickety wooden chairs transplanted from living rooms to front lawns...
...prerogative in deference to Sputnik's achievement still informs the approach to space nearly a decade-and thousands of trespasses-later. No established rules exist in space, and no method has yet been found to make rules effective there. No one has devised a way to station a traffic cop or patrol vessels to guard the boundaries of some theoretical mare nostrum of space. A canon of space law can thus be created only by mutual consent...
...TRAFFIC PROBLEM. Though the military or commercial exploitation of space is some way off, a traffic problem is already developing. Some 1,111 man-made objects and fragments of objects are circling the earth-and that is just the beginning. The problem is not yet acute; space is so vast that the chances of a collision-and the attendant legal problems -are still greater than a million to one. But as more and more satellites are lofted, some form of traffic control will have to be worked...
...Bureau of Drug Abuse Control, established last May, will focus its investigations on traffic in "pep pills" and barbiturates, and on manufacture of LSD in college laboratories...
...sense, writes Wertham, "we are the victims of the hydrogen bomb before it is ever used," because its very existence forces society to contemplate genocide. Tobacco and alcohol advertising, he believes, also teach a subtle disregard for human welfare, as does the U.S. acceptance of the annual total of traffic fatalities-"vehicular violence." Even patriotism comes under Wertham's rebuke. Monuments to the Unknown Soldier "do not fulfill our duty to the victims," but in fact feed the 20th century's growing disregard for the victim as a faceless statistic...