Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...persuasion, the magicians threatened to hypnotize the police en masse, or, alternatively, offered to solve Rome's horrendous traffic problems. So far, neither suggestion has budged the government. The protest leader was the Magician of Tobruk, who takes his name from a childhood prediction of his father's wartime death in the Libyan city. Said he: "All we want is recognition, then we'll show what we can do. If they want spells, we'll show them...
...Weekend, French Film Maker Jean-Luc Godard foresees the end of the world as an immense traffic jam. Stanley Kubrick sees the men of 2001 as murder victims of a machine they have made more clever than themselves...
Marching in groups, students flowed from buildings to streets, blocking entrances and tying up traffic. They walked around streets making up chants that sounded more like high school cheers until troops came. When the Guard appeared to clear streets, the students filtered away through alleys and buildings to join other groups on other streets and start again...
...tactics for last Thursday were similar to those of the rest of the week. They called for three groups of students--one to picket classes, one to march in front of the chancellor's office, and one to move around on streets blocking traffic. The blacks gave only three direct instructions, "Remain mobile, don't panic, don't get maced." Students were supposed to show their numbers but not to demonstrate their force, for the blacks needed only numbers to win the psychological battle with the university over the popularity of their demands...
Stand-by Alert. On the surface, it hardly seems to matter. Along Avenida Rio Branco in Rio de Janeiro large stylized figures decorate the curbs, bird cages in their outstretched hands. Huge, brightly colored sunflowers float above the traffic amid a profusion of plastic hummingbirds, cardinals and canaries. "Mother's Heart," an outsized paddy wagon so named "because there is always room for one more," is on standby alert-although the cops will haul away only the rowdiest of cariocas...