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...traffic-jam trauma is under attack. For example, Detroit's John C. Lodge Expressway is testing an ingenious control system. Fourteen TV cameras, mounted on bridges over a particularly congested three-mile stretch, transmit pictures of cars to a 14-screen big-brother console near by. Technicians at the console can zoom in their lenses for closeup shots of any single suspicious vehicle; on several occasions they have watched on television while a smashup or a breakdown occurs. Then they call a policeman and throw switches that change speed-limit signs, block ramps, and turn...
...Chicago Cubs did not hit a ball out of the infield until the eighth inning. But lim walked ten men, hit another, stretched the count to 3-2 against 14 batters. He loaded the bases on walks in the third inning, got out of that jam when Chicago's Billy Williams grounded out. In the ninth, he loaded them up again, but Don Landrum obligingly popped up to the infield. Maloney's teammates did their bit to contribute to the tension−by doing practically nothing at the plate. After nine innings, the score was still...
...stories in this issue deal in one way or another with getting and spending. The U.S. and WORLD BUSINESS sections, of course, are most immediately concerned, notably in our accounts of the stock market gyrations (One for the Bulls), and of a small nation paradoxically in a jam because of its natural wealth and high per-capita income (Trouble in the Garden). One of the most encouraging stories explains that it is still easier to make a million in the U.S. than anywhere else. Who has done it and how? See U.S. BUSINESS, How to Become a Millionaire (It Still...
...Jackson Hole, in northwestern Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park, has a traffic jam now and again, but mostly when moose and elk saunter across the roads. Tourists drop by from almost everywhere, but it is a summer retreat for well-to-do families from California, Illinois, Colorado and Utah, who want to turn the kids free to enjoy the glories of unspoiled nature without entirely forsaking silver on the table, innerspring mattresses and modern plumbing. Because the late John D. Rockefeller Jr. fell in love with the area and set up a nonprofit corporation to provide facilities, visitors...
...city's idea was to turn the business over to the municipal bus system, which, as it turned out, had far too few vehicles to handle the trade. The ban stranded thousands of commuters who had no other way to get to work. Lagos' streets were immediately jammed with baby-toting mammies lugging pails of smoked fish, fu-fu rolls and other pungently perishable delicacies to market in the 100° heat. The pedestrians were the only things moving. Angry maulers used their mammy wagons to blockade all entrances to the city, slashed the tires...