Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first, U.S. and Soviet space scientists were far more concerned with what they sent up than with what came down. Now success has forced them to equalize their interest. The North American Air Defense Command, which is responsible for tracking earth-circling traffic, counts more than 1,300 objects in orbit. These have included not only satellites but last-stage boosters, drifting bolts, and an astronaut's glove and camera. By the immutable laws of gravity, all must one day come plunging down toward earth...
Loaded with Gadgets. There won't be any passengers aboard the McDonnell Douglas 188-only aviation experts and technicians to assess operating costs, time savings, and the feasibility of flying from existing airports without interfering with other traffic. Smarting under the burden of traffic jams at major airports and the skies above them, airlines and the aviation industry are scrambling for commercially viable STOL planes and the potential $5 billion market they represent...
...delegate. Like the other candidates, Nixon is permitted a direct phone to ten delegations. He also has 125 cars at his command, as well as several speedboats-"Nixon's Navy" -that will dock in Indian Creek across from the hall to whisk VIPs to their hotels without fighting traffic on main-stem Collins Avenue...
Numbers Game. Among KRLA's other adventurous approaches to the news is a sardonic feature called "Today's Totals." Sample rundown: "Three dead in traffic. One death by gunfire. Dow-Jones industrials down 4.93. The Dodgers now 23 ½ games out of first place. The Angels 16 games. Those refusing Army induction: six. Marijuana arrests: 20. High today: 82." KRLA's 14-man news staff is youthful (average age: 29) and happily, rarely takes itself very seriously. Once an announcer closed with "This has been KRLA news. For all the news, listen to KNX, KFWB or read...
...actual event on which it is tenuously based, the picture begins brightly. A company treasurer (Robert Morse) is in the process of absconding to Brazil with the company funds when the power failure overtakes him at the scene of the crime. He quickly gloms an abandoned auto from a traffic jam and heads for Boston, where an airport is still functioning. But he gets only as far as the exurbs...