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...passengers daily. Moving sidewalks, computerized baggage handling, and a one-stop security checkpoint equipped with twelve electronic screening devices will also minimize the Hartsfield hassle. By 1985 travelers will be able to reach downtown Atlanta, nine miles away, in 17 minutes on a new branch of the Atlanta metro. Although designers spent $450,000 on contemporary art at the airport, most critics were unimpressed. Quipped Atlanta Journal Columnist Ron Hudspeth: "They could have gotten off much cheaper with a couple of velvet bullfighter scenes from K mart...
More and more company health programs cover alcohol and drug detoxification programs. There are now scores of post-detox rehabilitation programs as well, but they can still be ruinously expensive. One that aims to break a patient's habit but not his bankbook is Georgia's Metro Atlanta Recovery Residences Inc., or MARRinc. Its fee: $125 a week. Begun in 1975 by Donnie D. Brown, then a rehabilitation counselor and therapist at the Georgia Mental Health Institute, the program runs seven Atlanta-area halfway homes for detoxed drinkers and drug addicts who are not yet ready to return...
...greatest problem is that the sheer numbers of new refugees have simply overwhelmed community facilities. Says Metro Bade County Commissioner William Oliver: "We're at the crisis level now." Examples...
Like a battlefield tactician, Jimmy Carter last week jetted halfway round the world in a two-pronged attack on the problems of the American auto industry. First he summoned auto-company officials to a 7:05-a.m. meeting at Detroit's Metro Airport to announce a $1 billion Government assistance program. Then he hopped back aboard Air Force One and flew off to Tokyo for a memorial service honoring the late Japanese Prime Minister, Masayoshi Ohira. Though autos were not on the agenda of the President's 21-hour stay in Tokyo, his Japanese hosts could hardly overlook...
...girlfriend, or tired of drinking coffee and rob a Seven Eleven. When it happens, someone calls on the walkie talkie to tell him, and he drives like hell, pulls out a notebook, makes sure the names are spelled right, and then turns it into a brief for the Metro section, or maybe, if it's something powerful, a story that could crack the front page...