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...summertime citadel for hippies, many of Holland's 10,000 Jesus People joined a throng of young evangelists from overseas in distributing roses and Gospels as they marched to a park service. Some 8,000 youths, most of them from eastern Pennsylvania, descended on a potato field near Morgantown for an exuberant three-day Jesus festival, complete with prophecies and rock bands...
...least his fellow citizens in Morgantown, N.C., tried to make his life easy. "We didn't even carry a story on his reaction to the Nixon speech," said J.D. Fitz, publisher of the Morgantown News-Herald. "We didn't want to bother him. He's the same as always, and we're the same as always. Most everyone here loved Senator Sam before all this television. They still do." Sam pays a daily visit to his office, sifts through the mail, then strolls down the street greeting friends and neighbors. One afternoon he mowed the lawn...
...Boeing system, also wheeled and computer-operated along guide-ways, will use 21-passenger cars and is already being installed in Morgantown, W. Va. When the 31-mile circuit is opened for full operation late in 1973, it will connect the downtown area with three campuses of West Virginia University. Riders will be whisked along at 35 m.p.h. and will have to wait no longer than 27 minutes at any of twelve stations. Guideways can be warmed by circulating hot water to keep them free of snow and ice during winter...
Boeing lost little time in starting toward that goal. In August the company was named manager of a Transportation Department-sponsored project that will provide rapid transit along a 3.5-mile stretch of traffic-clogged roadway in Morgantown, W. Va., connecting the three campuses of West Virginia University and the downtown area. Boeing and subcontractors will build the track line and about 85 electrically powered, computer-operated cars. Commuters will be able to signal the vehicles, which carry 17 passengers and run at speeds up to 30 m.p.h., to stop by pushing buttons located inside the cars and at each...