Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arthur Hochstein (Deputy Art Director); Linda Louise Freeman (Covers); Steve Conley, Jennifer Napoli, Billy Powers, Irene Ramp, Ina Saltz, John F. White, Barbara Wilhelm (Assistant Directors); Angel Ackemyer, Stefano Arata, James Elsis, Carol March, Kenneth B. Smith (Designers); Nickolas Kalamaras Layout: John P. Dowd (Traffic); Joseph Aslaender, David Drapkin, Victoria ) Nightingale, Lisa Sampson, Nomi Silverman, Eugene Tick, Dennis Wheeler Maps and Charts: Paul J. Pugliese (Chief); Cynthia Davis, Joe Lertola, E. Noel McCoy, Nino Telak, Deborah L. Wells...
...people, China has revealed a surprising -- and daunting -- competence. Few in Beijing paid much attention to the cameras mounted on lampposts, rooftops and entryways along streets foreigners frequent. The SCOOT system, made by a British firm and purchased partly with development aid, was purportedly installed as part of a traffic-control system to count vehicles. The cameras were also secretly counting contacts between foreigners and Chinese, as John Pomfret, the A.P. correspondent expelled last week, found out. The Beijing State Security Bureau documented its charges against him with, among other evidence, photos of Pomfret and a source sitting...
...winds its way through central Paris toward the English Channel. This is the waterway of kings and conquerors, of ruined abbeys, gothic trees, half-timbered farmhouses and pastoral symphonies on either bank. Until this summer, visitors who wished to savor the creamy countryside of Normandy had to cope with traffic and train schedules. But now, if they wish, they can finally take to the water and its welcome privacies. The M.S. Normandie, the first sleep-aboard luxury cruise ship to shuttle the Seine, made its maiden voyage from Honfleur to Paris this month, arriving to fireworks and Gershwin...
...would thus take a Parisian time to get into the spirit of a Los Angeles traffic school where motorists ticketed for a moving violation may attend eight hours of driving instruction in lieu of court. At the newcomer's school in the San Fernando Valley, an actor named Dick Corbin provided diverting impersonations of a woman driver on the freeway talking on the car phone, eating lunch and doing her lashes in the visor mirror all at the same time...
...whom the motorized skis may be used. Many have set the minimum age for riders at 14, require use of a life jacket and forbid riding at night. In Florida, where eleven deaths have occurred since 1987, the state plans to outlaw such reckless maneuvers as weaving through powerboat traffic. Local authorities in Arizona and Oregon have restricted the use of personal watercraft to designated areas on certain lakes. New Hampshire has banned the craft entirely from all lakes and ponds of less than 75 acres, and last week restricted the craft, with some exceptions, from coming within...