Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kenmore Square was rocked by riot that night, with traffic backed two miles up Brookline Avenue. Remember how swarms of college boys commandeered cars to parties on Beacon Hill? Remember the motorists doing somersaults on their hoods...
...wincesome looks and quirky mannerisms-such as hunching his shoulders and reeling around like Quasimodo doing the lindy-still bring serious letters from shut-ins commending his courage for appearing despite such an obviously bad case of Bell's palsy. Jabbing and pointing his finger like a traffic cop, he once brought on a hypnotist with the familiar "Here he is!" and poked the poor fellow...
...ricochet from such economic losses has made politicians more eager than usual to intervene in strikes. Nine states are affected by a strike of 20,000 truckers who haul 60% of finished steel from the mills, which has led to shootings, dynamitings, traffic tie-ups and the furlough of 15,000 steelworkers because their plants have run out of space in which to stack up undelivered steel. The yearly rate of steel shipments is down by about 1,500,000 tons. Pennsylvania's Governor Raymond P. Shafer last week asked the governors of eight other steel-producing states...
...service stations to 50? at downtown nightspots. Beverly Hills, Calif., smokers have been paying prices ranging from 32? to 45? in one four-block area. Chicagoans fork over anywhere from 35? to 50? for the same sort of butts. "It's all on the basis of what the traffic will bear," explains Los Angeles Tobacco Distributor Norbert Orens. "Cigarette prices are not pre-marked with a manufacturer's price, so it's easy...
...some shops and drugstores, cigarette counters forgo profits to sell smokes as "loss leaders"-a tactic aimed at building customer traffic in general. At the other end of the price scale, the tactics are less subtle. In mid-Manhattan, not far from an A. & P. supermarket where shoppers buy regular-size cigarettes at 39? a pack, conventioneers visiting the Big Town can pay the big price at the New York Hilton newsstand-52? for nonfilter regulars, 53? for other kinds-and get some big lip too. "Because that's what we charge!" jeers the counterman at anyone who questions...