Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even before last year's Arab-Israeli war, the Suez Canal was fast diminishing in importance. Oil tankers, which accounted for almost half of all Suez traffic, were getting too big for it. As a result, more and more Middle Eastern oil was being shipped in giant tankers around the Cape of Good Hope. Faced with the prospect of dwindling profits from the waterway, Egypt began giving thought to building an overland pipeline as an alternate route for transmitting oil to the Mediterranean Sea. Then, when Israel came up with the same idea following...
...airline industry has already reached a peak-86 billion annual passenger miles-that was not anticipated until at least 1971. The result is that the Federal Aviation Administration is giving serious thought to closing down smaller airport control towers, shifting traffic controllers, and even limiting the flood of new aircraft deliveries until the Federal Government and the industry together can make some sense out of overcrowded skies and overburdened airport facilities...
...last months are devoted to examining questionable admissions applications, and a general administrative tidying-up. Last week, Crooks looked out from his seventh-floor office in Holyoke Center at his wide-angle view of Harvard Square. "Traffic in the Square has really been picking up the last couple of days," he said. "The summer school kids are coming, whether we are ready...
LAST summer Haight-Ashbury was clogged by traffic jams of tourists ("It took you an hour and a half to drive a couple of blocks," says Fleming.) The clean-ins stopped. And the Family Dog left town...
...welcome escape from Manila. Once largely swampland, Makati has been developed since World War I by its most recent owners, the immensely successful (insurance, banking, cattle ranching and oil refining) Ayala family. Now one of the Philippines' most desirable residential and commercial areas, Makati lacks Manila's traffic jams, boasts lower taxes, cheaper office rentals and better telephone service. Over the past five years, the Ayalas have attracted such leading firms as the beer-making San Miguel Corp., Colgate-Palmolive, IBM and Eastman Kodak. As a result, Makati's Ayala Avenue is sprouting a forest of office...