Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wonder Dinosaur Bob (Harper & Row; $12.89) is dedicated to King Kong. Like his predecessor, this jolly green giant is captured in Africa and packed off to the U.S. There he delights the gaping crowds by playing the trumpet and baseball. Alas, he also disrupts traffic and incurs the wrath of policemen. Here ends the similarity of ape and monster. William Joyce's plot and pictures provide laughter, thrills and, most important, a happy ending. Fair enough. Kong, after all, was a tragic figure; Bob is a comic creature. It was beauty killed the beast; it is whimsy keeps the reptile...
Last week's arrests could be just the tip of the iceberg. When police severed the French Connection in the early 1970s, the Marseilles gang was replaced in the heroin business by the Mafia, which began using old cigarette- smuggling routes to accommodate the drug traffic. By the early 1980s, Sicily had become the world's Heroin Central, and Mafia leaders had linked up with Latin American dealers to ship cocaine to the U.S. and Europe...
PHOTOGRAPHY: Mary Dunn (Deputy Picture Editor); Richard L. Boeth, MaryAnne Golon, Rose Keyser, Julia Richer (Assistant Editors); Kevin J. McVea (Traffic); Renee Mancini (Syndication); Arnold H. Drapkin (Consulting Picture Editor) Researchers: Dorothy Affa Ames, Martha Bardach, Stanley Kayne, Paula Hornak Kellner, Polly J. Matthews, Gary Roberts, Nancy Smith- Alam, Melanie Stephens, Robert B. Stevens, Eleanor Taylor, Mary Themo Photographers: Eddie Adams, Terry Ashe, P. F. Bentley, William Campbell, Michael Evans, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Peter Jordan, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Neil Leifer, Steve Liss, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Chris Niedenthal, Stephen Northup, Bill Pierce, David...
STEP 1: The Hotel. Instead of spending millions of dollars on a construction project that will block traffic in the Square for years, Harvard should take advantage of a building it already owns which is centrally located and can easily be converted into a first class, four-star hotel--Memorial Hall...
Gifford is the president of the Harvard Square Defense Fund (HSDF). She says she opposes the University's plan because the hotel would increase traffic in the area...