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...operators or conductors, move along fixed routes under the control of a computer, and do not pollute the air. PRT passengers enter a station, push a call button and are picked up within a few minutes. By pressing an appropriate button aboard the vehicle, they can make a swift nonstop trip to another station of their choice. Says William Magruder, the President's special consultant on technology: "Think of the system as a horizontal elevator...
...skunks. In order of defamation, their names are Richard Nixon, John Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson and William F. Buckley Jr. Nixon is submitted to a kind of kangaroo court-martial, but Vidal is not interested in a dialogue of viewpoints. Instead, he offers a nonstop diatribe, vitriolic and at times caustically amusing. Nixon is so one-sided that it has the curious effect of creating a certain sympathy for its leading character...
...West Side, weighed not profit and loss but the less tangible standards of their craft. The tumultuous two-day A.J. Liebling Counter-Convention* was timed to coincide with the publishers' gathering, and the mood of confusion and malaise generated by the Lieblingers produced the desired contrast. The nonstop critique underscored journalism's variety and energy-plus a widespread disenchantment with conventional practices. It was, in a way, journalism's Woodstock...
...Sidey with cameras, he instigated a special airlift to get pictures of the trip off the mainland, and by Thursday night the first 150 rolls of film had been flown into Chicago. There Durniak, Color Director Arnold Drapkin, Artist Anthony Libardi and a crew of photolab technicians worked nonstop for the next 38 hours. Meanwhile TIME writers and editors in New York were poring over the Sidey-Schecter files for this week's cover story and articles in THE NATION and THE PRESS. The result: a hard-won look into a long-hidden China...
...anti-Jordanian guerrillas while taking off. After leaving Beirut, Alia Caravelles must fly out over the Mediterranean toward Cyprus and then to Mersa Matruh, swing inland over Egypt to Luxor, turn again to cross the Red Sea and fly north over Saudi Arabia to reach Amman. The nonstop flight lasts four hours and consumes nearly every drop of fuel. "It is just within range with nothing to spare," says Alia Director Ali Ghandour. "If a hijacker demands to go to some onward destination, he will die for his decision...