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...area, including German autobahns and Swiss autoroutes that put Frankfurt and Basel only two hours away. (Ironically, it is easier for an Alsatian to travel out of France than to his own capital: Paris is 200 miles and a five-hour drive away, on a treacherous, obsolete two-lane highway.) The handsome new Entzheim Airport, with runways big enough to handle international jet traffic, has seven flights a day to Paris, as well as daily flights to London, Brussels and Milan...
...government reacted by launching what must have been the most intensive corpse hunt in history. Nearly half of France's 94,000-man police force was combing the country minutes after the disappearance of Petain's body was discovered. Roadblocks were set up on every highway leading from the Atlantic coast toward Verdun, where the culprits-who were presumed to be ultra-rightists-might be planning to bury the corpse. All trucks capable of hauling the 450-lb., zinc-lined oak coffin were stopped and systematically searched. Police also circled the sprawling cemetery at Douaumont, where workers...
Orchids. It is also a town where golf carts have a permanent right of way in crossing Highway A1A, the island's main traffic artery, in front of the Breakers Hotel. It is just the place for alliances of the rich and famous to be born. Silver-haired Jim Kimberly, the Kleenex heir, and his 22-year-old wife Jacquie were out fishing for sailfish a week ago with King Hussein of Jordan, who had made it a point to phone the Kimberlys before meeting with President Nixon in Washington...
...promote "more effective and sensible use of our land." The President therefore exhorted Congress to heed a bill that would make states take an inventory of their most ecologically valuable land (coastal zones, estuaries, flood plains) and identify areas that might be harmed by building power plants, highways or airports. The penalty for noncompliance: the Government would annually withhold 7% of federal funds for highway and airport projects until the states...
...Highway Trust Fund, which now finances only highway construction, to provide money for new mass transit systems...