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...Delft system is changing that approach. To achieve peaceful coexistence between cars and people, the Dutch are rearranging conventional streets into sidewalkless Woonerven. The entrances to streets are necked-down to one lane to slow down autos; that lane is then broken up with trees, planters, play equipment, benches and flower beds. Cars are parked diagonally in small groups on alternate sides of the street, so that moving vehicles have to slalom around them. Intersections are marked by islands of greenery or with gradually raised crosswalks...
Landry, with the option of rushing on net herself, fed Greeley, who had cut toward the goal in the lane vacated by Ferrante and her defender. The talented halfback wasted no time putting the Crimson in the lead with a searing left-footed blast into the lower lefthand corner of the goal...
Galatia (pop. 1,023) sits alongside the two-lane tarmac of Highway 34 in Southern Illinois like hips on a snake. Barely. There is a cluster of neat single-story frame houses, a couple of eating places, a bank, a gas station and small supermarket. A lone yellow blinker slows traffic a little. But few outsiders ever stop, and that is fine with Galatians, who have better things to do than chat. They raise corn, graze cattle and dig coal for a living. "Until lately," drawls one miner, "two dogs crossing the road at the same time...
...WINDS are changing; the bloom is fading from false mandates," labor chieftain Lane Kirkland said Saturday. And the size of his audience lent credence to his words--close to 300,000 trade unionists were crowded onto the Mall in our nation's capital to say they were sick already of President Reagan's economic policies...
Labor leaders have tried to impress upon the public the total unity of working people in this effort. Even AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland, a staunch anti-communist who has eschewed all ties with the more leftist of European labor federations, would not deny reports that the American Communist Party is among Solidarity Day's sponsors. Yet, even if the march attracts a large turnout, true labor solidarity will not yet exist. In spite of the AFL-CIO support for Carter, millions of rank-and-file workers turned out for a candidate who has traditionally opposed the minimum wage, social...