Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea, he says, "is to get to the line quick. You go pitter-patter-in' up there and they'll be waiting for you with a smile. Then pow! And the lights go out." They rarely go out for Owens, even though he operates in heavy traffic-from tackle to tackle. There have been times, however, when his savage, slashing style-quick start, high knee action, body leaning forward -proved embarrassing. More than once, he has burst through into the secondary, only to have his own momentum carry him helplessly forward and pitch him head first and untouched...
What kinds of problems-traffic, crowds, etc.-is the Patriots' presence in the stadium likely to cause for the surrounding neighborhood? How does the neighborhood feel about this...
...number of domestic programs rose from 45 to 485. These programs do not add up to a specific set of ends, but this does not impair administrative efficiency. The problems of the cities are diverse and rightfully belong in various program categories. Some problems like traffic congestion or air pollution have clear-cut economic or physical remedies. Other ladies like family disorganization or inferior schooling require more nebulous social responses. Here the need is more accurately cooperation than policy, particularly between two bureaucratic empires like...
...Halaby endeared himself to private flyers by hopping all over the nation for airport talkfests about their problems. His yen to be where the action is led him to fly to the scene of nearly every commercial air crash. One day he learned that sky divers might endanger air traffic. Characteristically, Halaby parachuted himself, pronounced diving great sport-then called for restrictions...
...which it has substantial holdings. For example, when Immobiliare teamed up with Conrad Hilton to build the Cavalieri Hilton Hotel on a Rome hilltop, the leftist press angrily accused the Holy See of wire pulling to arrange the zoning. When the government carved Via Olimpica across Rome to speed traffic to the 1960 Olympic Games, anticlerical pundits charged that the thoroughfare was laid out to provide huge profits for Immobiliare, which owned big tracts of property along the route. Early this year, small stockholders raised an outcry against the church when Pantanella, a big flour-milling firm, cut the book...