Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest traffic jam in U.S. courts comes from personal-injury cases, usually growing out of automobile accidents. Such cases now take an average 17.6 months to reach jury trial in the nation's principal courts of general jurisdiction,- reports New York University's Institute of Judicial Administration. Although this year's delay is less than last year's (18.7 months), and is actually down to two months in Spokane, Wash., things still look grim in the heavily populated urban areas that handle most of the cases. The country's 13 slowest jurisdictions...
Back to School. High school courses in driving and traffic have been a solid success, argues Loft: boys and girls who have taken them are involved in 50% fewer violations and accidents than those who have not. "With teen-agers," he says, "the biggest problem is attitude, lack of maturity and judgment, not skill. But with senior citizens, maturity, judgment and attitude for the most part are extremely good. They need help in developing confidence, and they have to be taught their weaknesses and how to compensate for them...
...hour classroom session. The first classroom session was devoted to tests of visual acuity, including distance judgment, reaction time, ability to distinguish colors, see in the dark and recover from headlight glare. The remaining classroom sessions included handling the buttons and levers, everyday driving maneuvers, good practices in traffic, on freeways and under bad conditions. When the program has been evaluated, Loft plans to invite all Indiana high school driving teachers to one-day seminars on the plan, so that they can initiate similar driving education for old people in their own communities. "I expect this idea to spread...
...instructor's recommendations, though-such as the practice of keeping the car's doors locked while driving, both to avoid being thrown out in case of an accident and to prevent anyone from getting into the car while it is stopped at a traffic light. "In the past I haven't felt the necessity of locking the doors," he says, "and I doubt that I'm going to change my ways in the future. Another thing they recommend is that you hold the steering wheel at 'ten and two o'clock'. Well...
Tossed in amidst sprouting red volcanoes, traffic lights, an orchestra, lightning, tricolored smoke, tankers, sail boats and quiet pastoral scenes stand 110 greats of the history of science. To make things less bewildering for the literate, Dufy labeled the figures. Originally he painted all of them - Archimedes, who once ran naked through the streets of Syracuse, Thales, Aristotle, Leonardo, Bacon, Galileo, Faraday, Pascal, Morse, Edison, Bell, Helmholtz-in the nude. Then he had extras from the Comédie Franchise model period costumes while be dressed up his pantheon...