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Last year only 19 states observed Daylight Saving Time on a statewide basis, while 17 others practiced local op- tion and 14 stayed on Standard Time the year round. The result was a chaos of conflicting time patterns. This year was supposed to be different. Reason...
Like the highways below them, the nation's airways are becoming increasingly congested. At any moment during daylight hours, the FAA estimates, there are between 8,000 and 9,000 planes aloft in the U.S. airspace, as many as 4,000 of them in the "Golden Triangle," formed by lines connecting Chicago, New York and Washington. With 1,000 new planes a month being added to the nation's aircraft population, the traffic jams are becoming increasingly heavy?both in the sky and at airports. Of the 9,500 U.S. airports, only 114 can handle jets. And although...
Four cars in four years have smashed into Bridge 238 on the Kansas Turnpike near Topeka. In each case, the driver was the lone occupant, and he was killed. In each case, turnpike police made the same notation on their report: daylight, clear, road dry, level and straight, no skid marks. "Cause: improper driving." Or was it suicide? No one can know for sure, but more and more police and traffic experts suspect that "autocide," as one expert calls it, is an important cause of traffic deaths...
...Press at 36th Street and Eleventh Avenue, New York. There, until dawn, we stood around the "stones" (tables) of the composing room. Under Hadden's direction we wrote new copy to fill holes, we rewrote to cut and to fit, and everyone tried his hand at captions. It was daylight when I got home and went to sleep. That afternoon, I found an uncut copy of the little magazine in my room. I picked it up and began to turn through its meager 32 pages (including cover). Half an hour later, I woke up to a surprise: what...
...same face to the sun-Mercury was found to rotate once every 59 days. This would mean that to a Mercury man-if there were one who could stand its temperatures (as high as 790° F.)-the sun would seem to move slowly across the sky, providing daylight for about 88 days. Then it would set, bringing on a night of the same duration. It remained for a Cornell University graduate astronomy student, Steven Soter, 23, to point out that the sun's otherwise dull journey across Mercury's sky is enlivened by a solar variety...