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...City Council, when it had nothing else to do, used to haul Traffic Director Robert E. Rudolph in for his usual tongue-lashing on how bad traffic was around the Square. They yelled when he said he was studying the situation. They laughed when he dotted Brattle Sq. with cans of concrete. Rudolph got even. Brattle Sq. is a sandbox, they call the turn from Plympton onto Mass. Ave. "shooting the rapids," and Harvard Sq. remains a larger cul-de-sac than ever. "Traffic may be bad at times now," chuckles Rudolph, "but if we hadn't made the changes...
Lockheed expects an 800-plane market for the air bus by 1980, on grounds that it will become a physical as well as economic necessity. Designed for the long haul, Douglas' 250-passenger "stretched" DC-8 and Boeing's upcoming 490-passenger 747 and SST will not even begin to handle all the future growth in air travel, which is expected to more than double in eight years. Flocks of smaller, short-haul planes are even now jamming air corridors and ground terminals. Reflecting the desire of many airlines for more seats but fewer planes is the fact...
...barely black and into the wider blue. The merged lines promise to pare expenses by cutting out competing ticket offices in some 25 cities and by ending route duplications. By building up their fleets, which now include Fairchild F-27 turboprops and Douglas DC-9 short-haul jets, they hope for rich runs to Hawaii and to Mexican resorts...
...energetically dismantled a whole front porch and lobbed the bricks at police. Two small boys struggled down Twelfth Street with a load of milk cartons and a watermelon. Another staggered from a supermarket under the weight of a side of beef. One prosperous Negro used his Cadillac convertible to haul off a brand-new deep freeze...
...railroads, the sprawling company has been plagued by inefficiency and red tape. The main reason: its ties to railroads impose on it the same night marish maze of regulations that the Interstate Commerce Commission ap plies to REA's parents. Without special ICC permission, REA cannot haul goods from city to city by truck; instead it must put the goods on a train - no mat ter how bad the connection - and ar range pickup and delivery at the other end. Last week its railroad owners at last gave up, and offered to sell the operation to the highest bidder...