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...belt, only 16 inches from the street curb. After that, the bags are tagged and weighed while still on the belt, their flight number transmitted by the ticket agent (into a binary decimal code) on a device like a small adding machine, and lifted mechanically to a massive, subterranean maze of conveyors. As they hit the main conveyor belt, the bags are moved 500 feet in one minute to an area below the loading building where they circuit slowly, for as long as 24 hours, until their flight is called. Once the flight is ready, electronic scanners, which "read...
Sometimes three-quarters of a mile long, forming as early as 6:30 a.m., doubling and redoubling upon itself through a maze of sawhorses set up by New York police, the line of people waiting to get into the Music Hall is one of the phenomena of modern show business. Extra long now in the tourist summer (70% out-of-towners), it is something to see in the winter as well, knee-deep in slush and ready for Donner Pass. The Music Hall somehow signifies to the rest of the nation the epicenter of Manhattan show business. Most...
Built on a saddle between two peaks, Machu Picchu is surrounded by a granite wall, can be entered only by one main gate. Inside is a maze of a thousand ruined houses, temples, palaces, and staircases, all hewn from white granite and dominated by a great granite sundial. In Quechua, language of the sun-worshipping Incas and their present-day descendants, the dial was known as Intihuatana-hitching post...
...York World's Fair Corp., did not hesitate to fault a predecessor. "Many people-some of them well-meaning-suggested we set some sort of classic pattern for the exhibit's architecture," said he, "but we decided not to trap our exhibitors in a maze of conformity. The 1893 Chicago fair, which held strictly to a Greek and Roman mold, set American architecture back 50 years...
During his 1960 campaign and since, John Kennedy repeatedly urged that the U.S. adopt new and progressive policies toward Latin America. In any such approach, the Assistant Secretary should be a key man. But in the maze of the New Frontier, the Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs can get lost-and never be missed...