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...goods and a convenient answer to a housebound or time-pressed shopper's prayers. Careful study of this stack offers a handy citizen's guide to the most urgent political, environmental and social issues of the day. Cast in the best light, direct mail is the great American transcontinental linkup. It binds one nation, under Ed McMahon, indivisible, with bonus coupons and toll-free shopping...
...auto division is hitting the skids, largely because of intensified competition and a relatively weak dollar that has pushed the cost of Saab's newest 9000 turbo model to a base price of $30,795. The parent company confirmed rumors last week that it is discussing a possible linkup with Ford, which could give the Swedish company's finances a boost. The U.S. automaker is believed to be particularly interested in ventures with the Swedish company's very profitable truck division...
Chatfield said yesterday that the library chose to transmit HOLLIS signals to the public terminals by standard telephone lines instead of by "relatively expensive" specialized HOLLIS cables. She also said "a small technical problem" was causing difficulties in the linkup between Baker and the main HOLLIS computer...
Even so, there are other, more formidable barriers. Past cooperative space ventures have been closely tied to politics. The 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission, for example, sprang from an earlier era of detente. The costly linkup between the orbiting U.S. and Soviet capsules (price tag: $300 million) was promoted to test compatible docking systems but had little scientific value: the flight was the last for the Apollo program. Prospects for more joint missions disappeared in December 1979, when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. "These missions start for policy reasons and stop for political reasons," says Nancy Lubin, a Government expert...
Such a system is far in the future, but the new linkup may have arrived just in time. A badly overburdened U.S. air-traffic system has pushed control tower errors and airborne near misses to record levels. In the first three months of 1987, midair close calls increased 13%, to about 215, while errors by overtaxed air controllers jumped 18%. The looming safety crisis prompted James Barnett, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, to recommend earlier this month that the FAA take "immediate action" to reduce air traffic at key airports before the anticipated summer air-travel crush...