Word: uniformly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...highways and byways of the U.S. may be sporting a profusion of new color. That, at least, is the recommendation of the National Joint Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, an organization dedicated to doing something about the welter of traffic signs dotting the nation's 3,700,000 miles of roadways. They found that the multitude of hard-to-read signs has become a major cause of traffic accidents, confounding many motorists into panicking, abruptly switching lanes or coming to sudden halts. Says Committee Vice Chairman Charles W. Prisk...
...make road signs still more easily recognizable, the committee also recommended greater use of uniform symbols, such as the European-style no-entry sign with a white horizontal bar on a red circle. After California installed such signs-which were lettered DO NOT ENTER-on its freeway exits two years ago, the number of fatalities caused by drivers heading up the down ramps was cut in half...
...source close to the Commission said Friday that the atmosphere seems "favorable" for a uniform two-year deferment for Peace Corps Volunteers...
...general has doffed his bemedaled uniform for casual mufti in order to soften his military image, has abandoned droning prepared speeches for off-the-cuff talks and has even begun to enjoy the political stump. Recently, he articulately plugged Indonesia's "New Order" on a visit to the island of Sulawesi, where he wowed the natives not only by giving pithy explanations of what his government is trying to do but by donning a sarong and the peaked local headdress. Later this month, he goes off to Bali on a similar speechmaking tour...
...Grady, who started in the first three games, is out with a strained leg muscle. Bill Kelly, who led the Crimson to its victory over Princeton last Saturday, hurt his knee in practice this week but is expected to start. The other quarterback, Larry Cetrulo, is back in uniform for the first time today after cracking two ribs in the Holy Cross game...