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...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...
HARTSFIELD. 27.3 million passengers last year. Averages 1,342 landings and take-offs daily. Three parallel runways, nine airlines. Delays of 30 min. or more: 1,339. Accessibility: good. Allow 15 to 45 min. for nine-mile ride downtown by car or cab ($7.50). Half-hourly limousines downtown ($3.50). Two commuter airlines. Parking: ample. Far-out lots served by shuttle bus. Flow Through: well planned. Sidewalk check-ins, baggage carts for rent (75?). One big central terminal with fingers leading to boarding areas. Longest walk: 2,680 ft. Baggage checkout: good. Hotels/Motels: plentiful. Nineteen near airport. Amenities: unambitious. Adequate lounges...
...ANGELES. 26 million passengers last year. Averages 1,322 landings and take-offs daily. Four runways, 33 airlines. Delays of 30 min. or more: 842. Accessibility: poor. Allow 30 min. to an hour for 20-mile ride downtown by car or cab ($16 minimum). Buses to downtown locations every 15 to 30 min. from 6 a.m. to 11:30 p.m., every hour from midnight to 6 a.m. ($2). Three commuter airlines. Parking: adequate except at peak hours. Far-out lots served by circulating bus 24 hr. Drivers advised to tune to 530 on their AM dials...
First problem at the foot of the Capitol. Broken water main had left a puddle that a transit bus hit just as Jones came along. He was sprayed. quit now and take a cab, he asked himself, or press on? Keep going, he decided. Turn on to Pennsylvania Avenue. Lovely morning. Remembering back to the Inauguration Day of Jan. 20, 1969. As an aide to L.B.J., he had ridden up the avenue in the limousine with Johnson and Nixon in back, he and Ev Dirksen on the jump seats. Ah, how life changes. Pump some more. Middle lane is crowded...
...Duck." Kristofferson's, however, is strictly for the movies. As a rough-talking trucker in Convoy, Sam Peckinpah's new film, inspired by McCall's record, Kristofferson leads 100 fellow truckers in a madcap chase -with 20 or so police cars in pursuit. Up in the cab with "Rubber Duck" is his new girl, played by Actress Ali MacGraw, who is making her first movie since The Getaway in 1973. The longhaired Cliffie of Love Story even got a special hairdo for the film. So when the wind comes whipping across the highway, Ali manages to keep...