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...wheels, have no seats but offer plenty of vertical safety poles to cling to, and are designed to operate smoothly for the benefit of the large percentage of elderly riders in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area. Municipal airports in Dallas, San Francisco and Los Angeles have built moving sidewalks -conveyor belts that transport passengers to loading areas; in Los Angeles, for example, they save about 420 ft. of walking. Prosaic buses haul passengers from terminal to aircraft at Atlanta and Honolulu airports, among others. The Hawaiian version consists of pint-sized wiki wiki (hurry hurry) vehicles that play taped Hawaiian...
...born Johnson had been haunted by thoughts of death since the age of four. A sharecropper's son who grew up in the deepest poverty, Johnson had developed a persecution complex early in life, and though he was fearful of the plant (he lost a fingertip in a conveyor belt in 1969), he saw the $150-a-week job as the most important thing in his life...
...internment of P.O.W.s, which the U.S. would like it to do under a Geneva Convention provision. The Communist countries generally express sympathy but contend that the U.S. must work the problem out directly with the North Vietnamese. Since December 1968, the Soviet Union has served as a conveyor belt for packages to North Viet Nam. Parcels are sent directly to Moscow. From there they are flown in sealed bags on Soviet planes through China to Hanoi...
...inductee who drifts unprepared into his local board's maw is as hopelessly doomed as the cow who placidly rides the slaughterhouse conveyor belt. There are chances to escape-times when the belt slows down, opportunities for a smart cow to leap off and run away. But unless the potential carcass knows precisely how to seize his chances for freedom, he will join thousands of his fellows at the other end of the abattoir...
...evidence piles up, so do the refinements of the Hess theory. Geophysicists are now convinced that the lithosphere conveyor-belt system actually consists of six separate plates that drift on top of the earth's mantle. When they collide, they can build mountains; the Andes were probably created when the Pacific plate wedged under the Atlantic plate, throwing up vast amounts of the overlying continent. When they move apart, they produce quake-prone schisms like California's San Andreas Fault...