Brazil Faces Record Traffic Deaths Amid Rising Car Use
Rio de Janeiro officials warn Brazil may hold the world’s highest highway fatality rate as traffic deaths rise from 38,000 in 1960 to 176,000 in 1972. Experts blame reckless driving, lax enforcement, and failed safety standards, with predictions of over 32,000 deaths in 1973.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Silvio Carlos Diniz Borgest
National Traffic Council
United States
Werner P. Schmidt
Volkswagen Do Brasil S.A
Volkswagen
West Germany
Rio
Jornal Do Brasil
Adriano Branco
Highway Research Institute
Rio Police
Rui Dourado
Avenida Brasil
Dourado
Diniz Borges
Today in History highlights for February 17 1973
Key events span 1801 Jefferson Burr electoral tie resolved by House of Representatives 1621 Miles Standish named military captain Plymouth 1871 Baltimore first U S city lit by gas 1876 sardines canned first time Eastport Missouri 1934 King Albert Belgian died 1944 Allied landings at Eniwetok 1958 Hughes moves to Nicaragua 1963 Goldwater Cuba blockade speech 1968 Communist offensive in South Vietnam 1968 Kennedy becomes first Scout president note births include Margaret Truman Marian Anderson H L Hunt and a birthday thought based on biblical line.
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Associated Press
U.S. House of Representatives
Thomas Jefferson
Aaron Burr
Jefferson
Miles Standish
Plymouth
Mass
Baltimore
Eastport
King Albert
Belgium
Eniwetok
Marshall Islands
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Senate
Cuba
South Vietnam
Saigon
Howard Hughes
Nassau
Bahamas
Managua
Nicaragua
Clifton Daniels
Margaret Truman
Marian Anderson
Texas
H. L. Hunt
Spring Sewing Pattern Ad Seeks Misses Coat Pattern
An ad offers PRINTED Pattern 4860 for Misses sizes eight to twenty with a coat sewing option in white or bright knits. Includes fabric estimates for size 12 and pricing 75 cents per pattern plus 25 cents for Air Mail. Orders go to Anne Adams Winchester Evening Star pattern dept New York.
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Anne Adams
Winchester Evening Star
Pattern Dept
West 17Th St
New York
N.Y
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