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Down on the streets, there is another kind of new look. Central cities are now paying increasing attention to the pedestrian and his comforts. Spokane, continuing a development started for its Expo '74, is building a system of second-story walkways so that people can stroll among six city blocks without ever going outside; Minneapolis already has a similar skywalk. New York is chipping at its concrete canyons with vest-pocket parks, small oases of greenery and water amid the granite, glass and asphalt. Most U.S. cities have become aware of the humanizing influence of gardens, fountains, plazas...
After about twenty minutes, the ground crew sent a cart out to retrieve Carter, and the entire bullpen left the bench to see the fallen Expo for themselves. Carter lay on the flat back of the cart and a towel was wrapped around his face. Twenty-five minutes after arriving in the clubhouse, a Polk Country ambulance took Carter to the local hospital for treatment. "Do I get the siren and all that stuff?" Carter asked the attendants. "Sorry, but no," one attendant replied. Then as the door of the ambulance closed, Carter shouted to an Expo coach, "Hey, save...
...salvage the project, the train's original operators stepped down and were replaced this month by Peter Spurney, former general manager of Spokane's successful Expo '74. Spurney is considering a variety of cost-cutting and money-raising stratagems (the train now costs $20,000 per display day). But he also might well think about more stops at unjaded towns like Archbold, where a look at Joe DiMaggio's baseball bat and rocks from the moon is apparently still worth two dollars from the kitchen sugar bowl...
...Toshiba company from bankruptcy, went on to head the electronics giant for 17 years. An affable, scholarly man who made pottery and wrote poetry, he held hundreds of management, advisory and honorary posts in business and public affairs. In the mid-1960s, as chairman of Osaka's Expo '70, the redoubtable Ishizaka pressured a reluctant Premier Eisaku Sato into furnishing ample funds. After twelve years as president of the powerful Federation of Economic Organizations, which is semiofficial overseer of the country's industrial machine, Ishizaka resigned at 81, then took on the presidency of Japan...
...only on containers, Washington's residents ratified a "Model Litter Control Act" in 1972. It was designed to stop all littering through education and citizen participation programs. An especially created Department of Ecology has organized drives to clean up beaches, cities, rivers and mountaintops. To prepare Spokane for Expo '74, for example, 78,000 residents took part in a three-phase litter pickup project that collected 500 tons of trash. The basic theme is pounded home by posters demanding ZERO LITTER, bumper stickers reading LITTER is NO ACCIDENT and even T shirts urging Washingtonians to STOP THE LITTER...