Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...convinced that the violence was over. As the afternoon wore on, the military attempted a few flanking movements in an effort to cut off the demonstrators sitting on the steps. They were repulsed. SDS had set up their microphones on the wall beside the top steps and was directing traffic and posting troop movements for those who couldn't see: "About 50 MP's are trying to block off the stairs... they're using tear gas... it looks like our people have them surrounded... yup, it looks like a rout," one of the speakers calmly announced to the crowd...
...Richard Nixon and Illinois' Senator Charles Percy, the leading contenders for the G.O.P. nomination were all ticketed for the trip-New York's Nelson Rockefeller, Michigan's George Romney and California's Ronald Reagan. And there were enough potential vice-presidential candidates to create a traffic jam on the promenade deck. Among them: Massachusetts' John Volpe, Rhode Island's John Chafee, Ohio's James Rhodes, Wisconsin's Warren Knowles, Colorado's John Love, New Mexico's David Cargo, Washington's Daniel Evans, even Nelson's younger brother, Arkansas...
...subway system can look like and accomplish is Montreal's new Metro. With its quiet, rubber-wheeled cars and elegant, uncluttered stations, it is, except for a lingering problem with the air conditioning, a positive pleasure. One year old this week, it has proved so popular that passenger traffic is running 50% higher than expected; the Metro has even generated an extra midday rush as executives have taken up the European practice of going home for lunch. Montreal's present transit strike only points up the Metro's importance: by conservative estimate, 50,000 additional autos...
...helped to make Beirut the banking capital of the Middle East, moved their riches elsewhere. Tourist trade, the other principal prop of Lebanon's economy, all but vanished with the Middle East war. Now, in once bustling Beirut, sumptuous hotels are almost empty, restaurants deserted, harbor-import traffic slow, nightclubs closed, stores shuttered for lack of customers...
...Traffic is light now. A fat lady with a fat shopping bag jammed full of Red Sox pennants stands on the corner waiting for a bus. "I'm taking them back home for my nephews," she starts to explain, but no one asks...