Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Board Chairman Mary Calnan and member William Cremin said Sunday that the board's decision was based on the amount of police protection and traffic in Harvard Square during the night...
George Teso, traffic commissioner, said that stricter enforcement of existing laws would help keep the streets clean...
...anti-john law is only the latest effort by New York to cut off the most baneful aspect of the trade?traffic in minors ?and to get prostitutes off the street. The city is still trying to enforce, with some success, the stiff, two-year-old antiloitering law (not coincidentally passed on the eve of the 1976 Democratic National Convention in New York City). Prostitution is somewhat less visible now. But the wording of the antiloitering law, which allows arrests for "repeated beckoning," is claimed to be unconstitutional. Once upheld by the New York State Court of Appeals...
Chicago has had its loitering law against streetwalkers declared unconstitutional. Now police there, as is often the case in other cities, are forced to bring in prostitutes by charging them with disorderly conduct or traffic violations. Last week a lower court Detroit judge, William C. Hague, dismissed 84 prostitution cases. All over the country the struggle ebbs and flows: streetwalkers become brazen, the public complains, the city responds with tougher laws and arrests. The prostitutes move off the streets. The police start worrying more about muggers and murderers. The constitutionality of the law is challenged. The hookers return, like...
...informal town criers, transmitters in a complicated nexus of jungle drums that would confuse Margaret Mead. Bernie Stolar, vice president of a small communications firm, first heard that Menachem Begin was in town after the Camp David summit when the taxi Stolar was taking to work encountered a traffic jam near the Waldorf-Astoria and his driver explained that Begin had just arrived. Shrugs Stolar: "It was news...