Word: linke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result, Atlanta has: public schools desegregated through all twelve grades; an $18 million stadium home for its first major league baseball team, the Atlanta Braves (who will move from Milwaukee at season's end); a $9,000,000 auditorium-exhibition hall complex; a $14.5 million freeway link between the downtown area and the airport (fifth busiest in the U.S.) that cuts driving time 23 minutes; 20,000 new jobs yearly since 1962, which is double what Allen was shooting for and has given Atlanta the lowest unemployment rate of any major U.S. city. Only his dream of a rapid...
Balanced Giants. The system-no name for it has yet been picked-would link 20 states and two Canadian provinces from Portland, Me., to Omaha, from Montreal to Winston-Salem, N.C., over 26,460 miles of track; it would boast annual revenues of $1.822 billion a year. The new road would be a shade larger than the pending New York Central-Pennsylvania combine (23,271 track miles, $1.806 billion-a-year revenues) but would have slightly less in total assets ($5.9 billion v. the Pennsy Central's $6 billion...
...will crawl through a hatch in the Gemini heat shield and enter the lab. For the return to earth, they will simply reverse the procedure, then detach from the 7½-ton canister and descend in the Gemini. Later on, other Gemini crews will take off from the earth, link up in space with the lab, and continue the work...
...curious mountain war sputtered on. At Yusmarg, a tiny Himalayan village near Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital, Indian police fought off a night attack by "hundreds" of Pakistani infiltrators armed with mortars, light machine guns and Sten guns. On the winding highway between Srinagar and Leh, a vital link to Indian forces manning the Communist Chinese border in Ladakh, a 14-man police detail guarding a wooden bridge clashed with night raiders...
...wheel does not jabber, there is no traffic to sit through, tips are often forbidden and the view is exhilarating. This is a taxi? In many parts of the U.S., it is−an air taxi, the fastest-growing segment of U.S. aviation. Air taxis link the 600 cities served by scheduled airlines with more than 6,000 communities that are not, carry businessmen, government officials and celebrities where they need to go in a hurry, and perform hundreds of functions from serving as ambulances to charting forest fires. In the past ten years, while 13 major airlines have shrunk...