Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...date when we can consider the job done. Three years? Five years? Ten? Fifteen? You make your own bets." One even suspects that in officialdom there is a tendency to take the war for granted. Some Administration policymakers are fond of pointing out that more Americans are killed in traffic accidents in Washington, D.C.. each year than in the Viet Nam war-while adding, with more logic, that a single battle in a major escalation could cost more American lives in one day than have been lost altogether in Viet...
...seems like an ant struggling with a boulder. "All he needs," says an American adviser, "is some competent administration at lower levels"-and this is precisely what Khanh lacks. In a land where colonial France deliberately restricted the Vietnamese participation in government (the French even posted their own traffic cops in Saigon), Viet Nam's civil service is shot through with inefficiency, not to mention graft, favoritism, inexperience, sloth; many ranking military leaders act more like petty politicians than professional soldiers...
Mabley's latest coup concerned the courts. In one day's column he reported in detail remarks made by Judge Joseph Wosik to defendants in the city's traffic court. To one defendant, wrote Mabley, the judge stormed: "If I could, I'd waive all these fines for three minutes in a room with you and your wife. When I got done with you, she'd wish for the fines. I'd punch your head in." To a Negro from the South, he shouted: "If you have another accident, I'll make...
...Traffic congestion did not increase, nor parking spaces disappear. The average parking time during business hours dropped from 29 minutes with meters to 26½ minutes without them...
...twin-Diesel, stabilized and air-conditioned Bilu got under way, it has carried 10,000 passengers and over 1,000 cars-a success story that has set its owners to rushing the completion of a sister ship, the Nili, scheduled to be named this month. When the tourist traffic to Israel slows down in the fall, Bilu is scheduled to begin plying between Miami and Nassau, while Nili starts running between Southampton in England and Algeciras in Spain, with a stop at Le Havre...