Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Janeiro's parking problem is about as acute as New York's might be if everybody drove to work. Since there are no parking lots, garages or meters, and since Rio traffic cops have always regarded parked cars with compassion, Rio motorists park anywhere. They double park and triple park; they park on sidewalks, in crosswalks, at intersections, on center islands. Every place but on top of another car. Now Brazil's revolutionaries are taking the matter in hand-the stern hand of Air Force Colonel Americo Fontenele, 43, Rio's new traffic director...
Fontenele remains airily unperturbed. Traffic is moving right along these days, and the colonel is now prohibiting parking on almost every main street. "The public is on my side," says the colonel, "except those, of course, who have had their tires flattened...
...Traffic Light. One day last week, as Tito's chauffeur-driven limousine halted for a traffic light in Panama City, Jimènez leaped from a nearby car, crying, "I won't let you doublecross me!" Jimènez then pumped four bullets into Arias' neck, right shoulder and right side...
More impressive than Mulcahy's flashy tests are some sober statistics compiled in recent months by various state authorities. A survey made last year by Illinois' Bureau of Traffic reported that the death rate of compact and small-car drivers was double the death rate of other passenger-car drivers. A similar report by Maine, published in April, showed a fatality rate for persons in compacts (defined as cars under 3,000 lbs.) that is 51 times as great as that of full-size cars. Studies of the California Highway Patrol found that small-car occupants suffer...
...billion in 1964. Helped by liberal depreciation schedules and favorable tax rulings, rail profits last year achieved a six-year high of $651 million, should climb at least another $50 million this year, if only because the Supreme Court's ruling against featherbedding will lower labor costs. Traffic is also rising. So far this year, the roads have carried 5% more freight than in the same period of 1963, and shortages of rail cars are cropping up in some places. Freight-car makers are busier than at any time in the last six years, and their backlogs of unfilled...