Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end (and TIME's deadline) neared, communications became-next to bullet dodging-the major problem. Cable traffic was out, telephone service spotty. Duncan finally managed to get the copy out, mostly by courier to San Juan, thence by Teletype and telephone to New York. On Saturday, Caribbean Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold flew to Santo Domingo aboard a Navy supply plane, got his own view of the situation, picked up the final takes of the Duncan-Diederich files, and made it back to San Juan on the last plane...
...times. On the whole, though, Italy is a tourist's legal paradise. Customs officials are inclined to overlook illegal liquor and cigarettes (more than two botties or two cartons); a 90-day stay can be extended in minutes; an expired passport gets a 48-hour grace period; traffic cops beam at addled tourists and dole out multilingual warning notes rather than parking tickets. Even disorderly tourists get breaks unknown to disorderly natives, and a robbed tourist is likely to get faster police aid in Italy than in almost any other country...
...WEST GERMANY. Traffic is the key problem. Without special permission, a tourist who brings his own car cannot allow anyone else, even his wife, to drive. If he does, he may have to pay the car's entire customs value plus taxes. Hugging the right lane on German autobahns is a matter not only of law but survival. Passing cars often hit 100 m.p.h. Though Germans are quick to turn tourists in for traffic violations, the country is tolerant of Americans who commit "secondary" crimes, such as camping at unofficial sites. Germany is festooned with verboten signs...
...CZECHOSLOVAKIA. Stringent traffic regulations include very low speed limits. Americans may be jailed for months on minor charges without consular knowledge...
Undergraduates joined the fun by staging a Save the Sycamore "protest" which held up Memorial Drive traffic for an hour and caused the MDC to bring on the canines...