Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City Council, when it had nothing else to do, used to haul Traffic Director Robert E. Rudolph in for his usual tongue-lashing on how bad traffic was around the Square. They yelled when he said he was studying the situation. They laughed when he dotted Brattle Sq. with cans of concrete. Rudolph got even. Brattle Sq. is a sandbox, they call the turn from Plympton onto Mass. Ave. "shooting the rapids," and Harvard Sq. remains a larger cul-de-sac than ever. "Traffic may be bad at times now," chuckles Rudolph, "but if we hadn't made the changes...
Part I of a two-part series about the impact of "The Computer Revolution" on today's society. This segment looks at an air-traffic-control center, computerized steel mill and typesetting machines...
Acapulco has spawned a thriving underground traffic in "Acapulco gold," the local marijuana that hippies believe gives the world's best high. Prostitution, vice and corruption abound, and guns are as common as palm trees. Moreover, Acapulco is the largest city in mountainous and jungle-clad Guerrero, Mexico's most lawless state. Guerrero has become such a problem that last week the Mexican army was embarked on a massive drive to round up all the arms in the state...
...number of deaths and disabling injuries due to traffic accidents keeps climbing. In 1958, automotive fatalities totaled 36,981. Last year the toll reached 52,500. Well over half the drivers may have been drinking to the legal point of intoxication before the accidents occurred. To cope with this situation, the National Safety Council in 1961 recommended a stiffening of statutory lim its set to separate sober from drunk drivers. The blood alcohol level* indicating intoxication, advised the N.S.C., should be lowered from .15% to .10%. Some states have adopted the new limit, but is .10% still too high...
Hoping to stamp out uncoded checks of all sorts, which account for a troublesome 2% of its daily traffic, the Fed has relegated them to a sort of second-rate status. Unlike coded checks, which are processed in a day or two, an uncoded check submitted to one of the Fed's twelve regional banks might be shuffled for ten days or more...