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...Mountain Park, an untouched 11,300 acres, nearly half the size of Paris, within the city limits of Los Angeles, Pereira's design would relegate the automobile to a circular rim-road linking ten villages that cling like jewels to the slopes. To keep even this traffic to a minimum, he suggests monorail and funicular transportation and several heliports for quick, easy access to other parts of the city. Within the villages themselves, everything would be so cozily clustered that the common way of going shopping, or to school, or to sports, or to work (in the light industries...
Facts of Life. Despite this somber chronicle of flight and death, many politicians and pundits outside Germany still cling to the notion - based in part on deep-rooted fear of resurgent German power - that its people are gradually becoming reconciled to their coun try's partition. In West Germany itself, this view is accepted in some quarters, mostly because it is a fact of present European life that the Russians cannot be moved out of East Germany, except by war, a West German surrender to Communism, or some kind of settlement for which West Germany might have...
...while the Irish cling to their past, there are signs today that the nation is also at last facing up to its future. For the first time in this century, most Irishmen are ready to believe that it can be a bright...
...town fathers let him take them away-but not Izildinha. Legally and in writing, Constantino had donated her to Monte Alto. "The body belongs to us," said a former mayor of Monte Alto. "Even if she is not a saint, she is still something for the people to cling to." Recently, 5,000 citizens turned out in a mass demonstration against Constantino. "Respect Our Faith: Don't Steal Our Soul," read the banners. Constantino, now 59, is ready to go to the Supreme Court, if necessary, to get her remains back. "If they want a body...
...happy to go as high as I can or as high as I am permitted to go-either one." Last week his family, the U.S. and the world learned that James Warren Whittaker, 34, had gone as high as a man can and still cling to earth. From Katmandu, Nepal, came word that it was Whittaker, together with a Sherpa guide named Nwang Gombu,* who planted a U.S. flag at the summit of Mount Everest on May 1. The Best in a Person. Manager of a Seattle store that sells mountaineering equipment, towering...