Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crowded Streets. Continuing skirmishes in the capital failed to root out stubborn-and embarrassing-pockets of Viet Cong guerrillas holed up in the honeycomb hovels and alleys of the Chinese quarter of Cholon. But Communist resistance had slackened to the point where Saigon resumed relatively routine patterns. Nightmarish traffic again snarled streets nearly empty for two weeks, and patrolling soldiers no longer had the wary, Gary Cooper glint in their eyes...
...minute appearance (his shortest in months), Traffic Director Rohe hopes to end the rotary by March 31. If Rudolph goes through with his plan, Garden St., Waterouse St., and Mass. Ave., along the Common will once again be two way streeths...
Grotesque Practices. When Thomas Murton, Rockefeller's 39-year-old reform appointee to the prison superintendent's job, took over early in 1967, enforced homosexuality and traffic in liquor and narcotics were rampant at Tucker and the Cummins prison farm...
...Cambridge city government: it smashes constitutional rights only selectively. The freedom of peaceable assembly that bug eyed suburbanites and teeny boppers use to redress their grievances each weekend in Harvard Square has never caused much of a stir down at City Hall. Even though the weekend gapers stop traffic, dirty the sidewall, cram the Coop, and induce claustrophobia, they obviously have redeeming social--and economic--value. A small circulation magazine that socks it to the powers that be, in the very language those powers use in their back rooms, is another matter...
Electrically charged SSTs would actually provide a visual dividend. Ionization of the air in front of the planes would produce a corona discharge that would be seen as a bright blue glow in the dark. "When supersonic traffic gets heavy," says Cahn, "this could provide observers on the ground with a spectacular view at night...