Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nine councillors, joined by Cambridge's state representatives, met informally with traffic consultants hired by the city. The consultants presented their recommendation of an alternative to the Brookline-Elm St. route for the Inner Belt, the route that is favored by the state. This route cuts a wide path through Cambridge only several blocks east of Central Square...
...Hazards. With no U.S. planes to harass them, 200 trucks daily-ten times the pre-pause average-moved war materiel southward. Routes 1A and 15 bustled with daylight traffic headed for Mu Gia pass, gateway to the Laos spur of the Ho Chi Minh trail. Men moved over the trail too-at least 2,500 during the pause, including 1,000 on Christmas Day alone. Some officials in Saigon unofficially numbered the infiltration at as many as 6,000, and they estimate that there are now at least nine North Vietnamese regiments, and possibly twelve, in the South...
...President of the Philippines has taken office with a vow to clean up the corruption that plagues the nation, and the country's new leader is no exception. In fact, Ferdinand Marcos' main campaign plank was a promise to weed out crooked officials and halt the illicit traffic in whisky, cigarettes and luxury goods that cheats the national treasury of an annual $125 million in import duties. It is a huge task, but Marcos has got off to an impressively early start...
...Eggheads unite-you have nothing to lose but your yolks!" Not to mention his wry crack after the election: "When I was a boy, I was told that anyone could be President, and I believed it." Or the comment he made in 1960 when he was caught in a traffic jam at the Washington airport as Charles de Gaulle arrived: "It seems my fate is always to be getting in the way of national heroes." All memorable enough-and merchandisable enough. But even Stevenson didn't coin enough to fill a book...
Last week, it wrote the Council asking that its traffic consultants perfect a second alternative to Brookline-Elm St. route. Pointing out that the Federal Bureau of Public Roads, which will finance 90 per cent of the Inner Belt, had tentatively rejected the railroad route some years earlier, the committee said...