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...shrouded the city. Cement mixers rather than armored vehicles, rumble through the streets. The port has been restored to 50% of prewar capacity and once again trucks rattle off the piers and up the winding mountain roads toward delivery points throughout the Persian Gulf. Beirut's airport, the busiest in the Arab world (400 weekly flights) before it was shut down by artillery fire, has reopened and handles about 75% of its old traffic volume. The industrial district of Mekhalles, badly damaged during the 52-day siege of the adjoining Palestinian camp of Tel Zaatar, is again turning...
Sitcoms For the first time since 1971, there will be no new fall comedy show on the networks from Norman Lear. Still, with TV violence out of fashion, the sitcom mills have been the busiest of all, with eight new shows. If Soap, a Lear-ish entry from ABC, is any indication, sex may replace the Shootout as a video pastime. The half-hour weekly serial is a family farce complete with philandering husband, a mother and daughter who pursue the same tennis pro, a transvestite son, and many, many others...
...building to call its own, ;he Comptroller of the Currency's office is a federal backwater, responsible only for the important but dull job of regulating the 4,600 national banks. Suddenly, the comptroller's quarters at the L'Enfant Plaza hotel are among the busiest in Washington, as U.S. bank examiners press their potentially explosive investigation of Bert Lance's financial affairs. The comptroller's lengthy report is due soon, perhaps this week, and could save or squash the powerful budget director, who is Jimmy Carter's old pal, former creditor and longtime...
...sent to Oshkosh from other Midwestern airports to keep the participants out of one another's struts, the convention was not only the "world's largest aviation event" but also the world's biggest traffic jam. Chicago's O'Hare, the world's busiest airport, averages some 2,000 landings and takeoffs a day; there were more than 4,800 daily at Oshkosh. Since many of the planes were not even equipped with radios, the controllers were forced to rely on red smoke signals. Even those flyers with radios were not much better...
...HARE. World's busiest: 41.7 million passengers last year. Averages 1,968 landings and takeoffs daily. Thirteen runways, 26 scheduled airlines. Delays of 30 min. or more: 9,318. Accessibility: fair. Allow 25 to 50 min. for 20-mile ride downtown by car or cab ($12). Buses ($3.50) go downtown every 15 min. (daytime), sporadically at night. Buses also serve suburban areas every one or two hours (daytime). Eight commuter airlines, charter helicopter service to Midway Airport and Meigs Field. Parking: easy. New close-in facility with 9,200 spaces. Flow Through: smooth. Sidewalk checkin. Insufficient baggage carts. Three...