Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Behind those numbers is a remarkable dearth of effective legal controls over the purchase and possession of guns. Federal law curbs a few things, such as traffic in machine guns, sawed-off shotguns and silencers, but the regulation of firearms has been left largely to cities and states, which have built a crazy quilt of laws, few of them stringent. Until New Jersey enacted a new gun statute last week, no state (and only Philadelphia among U.S. cities) required police permits for buying, keeping, or even roaming Main Street with a shotgun or rifle. Only seven states and a handful...
...respected-and controversial-political leaders, Yoruba Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the deposed premier of the Western Region. "We need you for your wealth of experience," he told Awolowo. His release was greeted by mobs of jubilant Westerners. In Lagos, Yoruba motorists drove through the streets shouting "Awo! Awo!" and a traffic jam seven miles long converged on Awolowo's home town of Ikenne...
High above the traffic's boom and deep below the granite surface, New York relentlessly carries on the task of renewing itself. To keep up with the pace, Manhattan alone will spend $1 billion this year, and no city on earth can build faster, taller, bigger or better. Whole avenues are changing as outmoded structures come tumbling down and stores cheerfully bid their customers goodbye with placards: "We'll be back next year, right here in the new building." Never were the signs of change more evident than this summer...
Destination: office. Driving time: Beethoven's Third Symphony, Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto, and, depending on traffic, two or three numbers by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Driver squiggles into bucket seat, straps on safety belt, injects stereotape cartridge into dashboard holder, and, to the engulfing strains of the 100-piece Boston Symphony, rolls away on wheels of song...
...than the two hours it takes by air. The probable cost: $5, or $1.78 less than the present train fare, and about $8 less than the price of a plane ticket. Special high-speed trains now being developed by the Budd Co. and United Aircraft may roll up passenger traffic-and profits-even faster...