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Similar experiments have been under way in the U.S. since last October. The Ford Motor Co. planned and helped to inaugurate phone-bus systems in Ann Arbor, Mich., and Columbus, Ohio. Consultants from M.I.T. helped to set up another in Batavia, N.Y. But none of the U.S. experiments compares in size to the system in Regina, where Transit Manager Wally Atkinson expects to make Telebuses available to 60,000 citizens by the end of the year and to provide citywide coverage...
...heavy end of the truck market, composed mainly of the construction and trucking firms, is also growing. The big three automakers produced 60% of the heavy trucks sold last year; the rest were turned out by International Harvester, White Motor Corp., Mack Trucks, Diamond Reo and other companies. The 7% investment tax credit has helped spur demand. So has the decline of train service, and the fact that 25,000 communities in the U.S. have no means of delivery service other than trucks. Industry leaders expect total sales to increase 50% by 1980 to $10 billion, a growth rate that...
Three Complaints. Altman charges that homosexuals suffer from three things: persecution, discrimination and, paradoxically, tolerance. By persecution, he means police harassment in homosexual bars and meeting places. He points out that in 1970 Connecticut's Commissioner of Motor Vehicles denied a license to a man because "his homosexuality makes him an improper person to hold an operator's license." As another example of discrimination, he cites the prejudice against hiring homosexuals. "Try telling your boss you cannot move to a new job because of your lover"-the only term homosexuals have for the heterosexual equivalent of wife...
...Jacobs is heading out through the woods on his motor bouncing over stumps as fast as he can go. SGA President. Top stump jumper...
...operated on last November. "I've been nearsighted most of my life," said Tony Award Winner Duncan. "My father says I can see more than I can understand anyway. What would affect me more-being in the business that I'm in-would have been if the motor area had been damaged. You see, the appearance of the eye is more important, actually, than the vision." She plans to resume her weekly TV series Funny Face in May or June...