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...days later, Ford got a call indicating that unless $4,000,000 was paid to the guerrillas, more lives would be "jeopardized." As a result, 22 executives of the company and their families left Argentina immediately. Ford, the country's largest carmaker, seriously considered closing its plants, which employ about 10,000 people...
...them, the spirit of the CIA being immortal), he disguises himself as one of the robots. This bit becomes especially hilarious when his owner (the admirable Diane Keaton) returns him to the factory in order to have a new and more pleasing head installed. Other hairbreadth escapes employ a recalcitrant flying-belt of the sort first used by James Bond, a wildly inflatable rubber suit and a 200-year-old Volkswagen that starts on the first...
...radio drama in for a resurgence? That seems no more likely than the comeback of silent two-reelers. All that can reasonably be expected now is a brief eavesdropping on the past - an opportunity to employ the long-rusted faculty of imagination...
...possibility is computer-controlled, driverless buses running along expressway lanes reserved exclusively for them. Another is "dial-a-bus" systems. These would employ small vehicles that would run frequently along fixed routes but have no set stopping points; a passenger would simply dial a central office and the next bus would stop at his corner to pick him up. Of course, the best answer to urban transportation problems will be a mix of buses and rail-based systems...
Hinting darkly that some Scandinavian and Communist countries already employ such techniques, Western coaches and trainers have been searching for years for a safe, drugless way of improving athletes' performances. Swedish researchers may now have developed a technique that can do just that. In a series of experiments at Stockholm's Institute of Gymnastics and Sports, Dr. Bjorn Ekblom gave physical education students transfusions of their own red blood cells, which carry oxygen to muscles and other tissues. The result was the kind of boost in endurance that could mean the difference between a gold medal and none...