Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FLOOR of the Cambridge City Council's chambers, there is a massive table where City department heads sit when the Council grills them. Come into the chambers during the Council's meeting on Monday and, likely as not, you'll see Robert E. Rudolph, the Director of Traffic and Parking, sitting behind the table sometime during the afternoon...
...Council's interrogations of Rudolph are so frequent that they've become stylized. The Traffic Director walks in, hitches up his trousers, puts his briefcase on the floor, and nervously lights his cigarette. His eyes dart first toward the Mayor's chair and then over to his left, where Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci sits...
...finger waving, Vellucci opens fire: "Mister Rudolph, we held up that money so you could come in here and tells us about," the councillor pauses for emphasis, "WIN-sor Street." Heavy traffic on Windsor was Vellucci's opener last Monday, but the councillor soon moved on to other favorites--a stop sign at 4th and Hurley, a traffic light at 6th and Gore. After a while Vellucci got tired and said "I have a big long list, but I'll save it for another night when we'll make you the big star here." Rudolph was lucky that time; only...
Blue-Eyed Soul Brother. When Bobby arrived in Columbus, last week, ostensibly to meet with Ohio's convention delegation, the scene was near-anarchy but fairly typical. Advance radio plugs had invited the populace to the airport for a "moonlight meeting" with Bobby and Ethel. A mammoth traffic jam resulted. Finally arriving in the city, Kennedy stood on his convertible's hood with his Irish cocker spaniel Freckles at his feet. At Mt. Vernon and North Champion Avenues in the Negro Near East Side, friendly crowds engulfed the car. Admirers fell over each other and into the motorcade's path...
...violence, bearded youths and miniskirted coeds sat in the courtyard singing occasional ribald songs against the Gaullist government. Now and then a jazz band struck up a tune or a pianist played an instrument dragged from an auditorium. With no police around, students even donned helmets and directed traffic on the Left Bank...