Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When it's all over, the sidewalks in both the Brattle Square area and on Massachusetts Avenue will be expanded to almost twice their normal size--providing more room for the street musicians as well as pedestrians. The plan is to push all the traffic lanes into the center, thus widening out space along the street In addition. changes will be noted at the regular kiosk stop. The architects, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, have come up with a snazzy-looking station that overall resembles the fifth floor of Macy's on a slow day. The old entrance at the kiosk...
...wife. Mole or not, Pacepa may be something less than an outstanding prize for the CIA. "A major defection from Bucharest is almost a contradiction in terms," says a U.S. intelligence expert. Because of its resolute independence from Soviet influence, Rumania is not privy to the most sensitive intelligence traffic between Moscow and its more compliant satellites. Nor is Pacepa apt to be well informed about the Soviet army, because his country has not permitted the Warsaw Pact to deploy troops on its soil since the mid-'60s. Nonetheless, the defector can shed some light on subjects of interest...
...seldom looked better. There is no sign of tension among Czechs lining up around street vendors to buy ice cream or to window-shop during their brief lunch hour. The large number of uniformed police could be accounted for -nominally at least-by a complicated new system of traffic flow in the city center. On the surface, the primary concern of most of Prague's citizens today seems to be their regular weekend escape to a country chata (cottage). The only apprehensive people around town seem to be the leaders of the regime itself...
...blood disorders among embassy personnel, as well as a number of birth defects in their offspring. A former Marine guard has filed for $1.75 million in damages from the State and Navy departments for his severely retarded child. Increasingly, people exposed to large amounts of microwave radiation, notably air traffic controllers and radar operators, are seeking damages or disability payments from both the Government and private manufacturers...
...county fills up, it is developing some of the problems that the companies moved there to escape. Partly because of rising traffic congestion, Greenwich has placed tight limits on how much land can be zoned for business use, and Darien has imposed a moratorium on commercial construction...