Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cheers for your exposure of the evil operations of the Cosa Nostra [Aug. 22], particularly drug traffic. As a former narcotics court news reporter in Chicago, I can tell you that educated estimates attribute 50% to 80% of all crime to narcotics. It is a cruel form of slavery, and those addicted to heroin can seldom afford it without resorting to crime...
Since crime on the streets is a smoldering political issue, the Cosa Nostra and its narcotics traffic should be included as a root cause...
...fellow (who spent one year, one month and 26 days growing shoulder-length locks) tucked his flowing tresses under one of Woodford's wigs and snagged a job working for a gas-station owner who didn't want "longhairs hanging around." Another customer was in traffic court and, figuring that "I'd rather be prosecuted for my transgression against the Virginia traffic code than be persecuted for being a freak," he invested in one of Woodford's wigs. He didn't beat the rap, but the arresting officer said: "Well, one good thing came...
...Shavians are so pious as to be diverted by all the material in Minney's compilations. Who cares to learn that Shaw once diverted traffic with his walking stick to make way for Greer Garson's car? Or that his housekeeper used to smuggle whisky into Shaw's soup? Still Minney has unearthed a few memorable anecdotes in which Shaw appears as the witty Irishman, some of his cracks as old as the Wicklow Hills. Alfred Hitchcock, on meeting Shaw: "One look at you, and I know there's famine in the land." Shaw, replying...
...formation of Blind Faith was less a conscious decision than a drifting together of old friends who liked to play together in off hours. After Cream and Traffic broke up, Clapton and Winwood began a series of two-man sessions, alternating between Clapton's $100,000 house in the Surrey hills south of London and Winwood's whitewashed, $5-a-week farm cottage on the Berkshire downs. Baker, who had known Clapton since they worked together in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, "just showed up" one day and started sitting in. With the addition of Grech, they...