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...million in federal aid it had been allocated from the gas-tax fund, and its proposed 18-mile heavy-rail system appears to be on permanent hold. "It's a humbling experience to take a licking like we did," admits Alan Kiepper, general manager of Houston's Metropolitan Transit Authority. Houstonians were simply unconvinced that a costly rail line was the answer to their legendary traffic jams. The defeat was also a protest against the highhanded attitude of the local transit board, which had purchased $139 million worth of Japanese rail cars three months before the bond-issue...
...streetcars have attracted 4,000 more riders per day than originally projected. Fares, which can go as high as $1 for a full-run ride and are collected on an honor system, cover a remarkable 80% of operating costs. Says Dick Murphy, chairman of San Diego's Metropolitan Transit Development Board: "Give people a system that is reliable, frequent and reasonable, and they will jump on board...
Near the end of her life, Hilda Doolittle might be seen in Manhattan crossing Fifth Avenue from the Stanhope Hotel to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tall, gray poet would head for the Pompeian frescoes and classical statues and then for the museum's restaurant to eat apple pie and ice cream for lunch. It was 1960 and H.D., as she signed herself, had come home briefly from Europe to receive the Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She died the following year, at age 75, in Zurich, within a circle of admirers...
...says he also plans to consult for the 20th Century Foundation, a group which funds public policy studies. He will continue to serve on the board of New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority, overseeing a five-year capital program he helped put together, and will head a recently-announced commission on "New York in the year...
Billy Idol: Dancing with Myself (Tobe Hooper). A little tune about solitary recreation becomes a sci-fi nightmare of metropolitan devastation...