Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cheering and firecrackers exploded as bars spilled crowds onto the streets. Traffic snarled at Kenmore Square and backed two miles up Brookline Avenue. Drivers abandoned their wheels to do somersaults on hoods. Police arrested 16 members of the Devils Desciples (sic) motorcycle gang and described the crowd as having reached "riot proportions...
Oddly enough, while the government has lately gone all out to attract tourists to Czechoslovakia, it has detained more than 60 Western tourists in the past year, many of them for minor traffic violations or petty smuggling charges. It has yet to explain the mysterious death of Charles Jordan, vice chairman of the American Joint Distribution Committee, whose body was found in the Vltava River in August. Another sign of a less permissive policy: Czech border guards have opened fire on fugitives from Communism, in the past two months killing two and wounding three others who were trying to cross...
...another air-safety move, President Johnson requested $7,000,000 from Congress to hire and train 900 additional FAA air-traffic controllers to help sort increasingly heavy airplane traffic and prevent mid-air collisions. The President also asked Transportation Secretary Alan S. Boyd to draw up a long-term safety program, whose estimated $5 billion cost for "facilities, equipment and personnel" would be largely financed out of user charges...
...hotel. Mothers pushed baby carriages, and many children were perched on their fathers' shoulders. They marched past the park and up the Avenue of the Stars into Century City at the corner where the 20-story Century Towers apartment building stood, spanking new. The marchers were separated from opposite traffic by wide boulevards covered with orange and purple flowers...
...crowd blocked traffic, the cyclists whipped up Beacon Hill one by one, peeling out on their back wheels. Part of the crowd stood on the steps of the State House yelling, "Legalize...