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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los Angeles: The New Ellis Island | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

...terrified residents search for protection, the region is beginning to be as armed as a military base. In the past five years, 220,000 guns have been sold in Dade County???an average of more than seven guns for every new household. So far this year, gun sales in the county have risen 46% over 1980, to a record 66,198. It is easier to buy a pistol than an automobile in Florida, where the gun lobby has frustrated virtually all attempts at handgun controls. Even the Rev. MacVittie has purchased a revolver to keep in his home. "That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Florida: Trouble in Paradise | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

...passengers were off-loaded and put onto another train. It wheezed out of the station, only to stall several times along the way. Mrs. Loewe had flown from West Germany to the U.S. in 7½ hours. Her journey from Kennedy Airport to her home in New York's Westchester County???30 miles, as the crow flies ?took five hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: America the Inefficient | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

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