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...Chamber of Commerce. "All the planning is in think tanks." And planning, after all, has produced urban results as dreadful as any. The "master plan" for L.A. envisions two more international airports to be built?the first one in the desert of Riverside County?to pull Angelenos out into the boondocks, where there is still room to grow and grow. Enzer is dubious: "How is anybody from Watts going to get to a job in Riverside if it opens up there?" Already, though, up north in an arid nowhere, a new, generic tract has sprung up: the development is called...
...trial. Alvarez, as he sees it, has been forced to respond to the dramatic upsurge of leftist terrorism that followed the return to civilian rule. Last year, for example, Honduran leftists hijacked a domestic airliner and later held 100 businessmen and government leaders captive in the San Pedro Sula Chamber of Commerce building. Honduran security police have also uncovered "safe houses" used by El Salvador's guerrillas to store guns and radio transmitters...
...senior editor, James Atwater, also jogs away tension and praises biofeedback techniques, which he learned in a program at Duke University two years ago. Yet another runner is Medicine Reporter-Researcher Mary Carpenter, who has tried a "tranquillity tank," spending half an hour floating in a dark saltwater chamber. "I didn't begin to feel the beneficial effect until afterward," she reports. "Suddenly I was HUGH PATRICK BROWN refreshed and clear and focused, and the relaxed feeling lasted longer than that from any other technique I've tried...
...most successful black mayors have created strong alliances with the white business establishments in their cities. Morial worked closely with the Chamber of Commerce to attract high-tech companies to New Orleans. Andrew Young was opposed by Atlanta's business community when he ran, but after his election he wooed its leaders over lunch, telling them, "I can't run the city without...
...competence and ethics, he looked as though he were facing a master interrogator - say, Dan Rather when he was on CBS's 60 Minutes. Instead, Rather, now anchor of the CBS Evening News, was the co-defendant being grilled last week in a Los Angeles Superior Court chamber, in a $30 million suit for alleged defamation of a doctor at a clinic accused of insurance fraud...