Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some University professors joined ranks with those who were concerned about the library's impact on traffic and pollution. Paul R. Lawrence, then a leading member of Neighborhood 10--the most vocal of four community groups that comprised COPE--and Donham Professor of Organization Behavior at the BusinessSchool, said opponents of the library were "almost all supporters of JFK." Lawrence says a large number of Cambridge residents worried about the library's impact, despite the small number of visible opponents...
...each of John Paul's stops on this tour, local officials were hard pressed to cope with the intense public demand for a chance to see him. In Boston, authorities worried about paralyzing traffic jams and decided to ban automobiles on the city's major downtown thoroughfares...
Chicago planned to close virtually its entire Loop, about 80 square blocks, to incoming traffic while the Pope was in town. In the nation's capital, the 7,000 or so tickets issued by the White House for two presidential receptions in John Paul's honor were the most sought after invitations in years...
...Mexican attorney: "When a Mexican official gets an important post, he steals from it instead of serving in it. It's unfortunate, but that's the way it is." From policemen to Cabinet officers, officials routinely ask for and get bribes, ranging from the $2 that will persuade a traffic cop to tear up a ticket to the multimillion-dollar fraud allegedly perpetrated by the former head of a government tourist fund...
Fate, working through coincidences, performs several kinds of malevolent interventions. In one brilliant scene. Jade's father, walking in Manhattan, spots David across the street and rushes after him in a rage; he is crushed to death in the traffic. Among other things, the book could be read as a grand parody of the idea that the course of true love never runs smooth. At last, David ends in jail, for breaking parole, if not for shattering all the lives around him. Jade vanishes into the oblivion of an unknowable domestic life with another man, a subsiding into reality...