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...Dead End. The problem of moving this vast torrent of people between cities is difficult enough. But the real headache is handling the flow from city to airport and in the airports themselves. As William Pereira, master planner for the Los Angeles Airport Commission, puts it: "The real bottleneck in the jet age is not in the air but on the ground. We must break the ground barrier...
...Angeles Airport commissioners and their consultants, one of whom was Architect Pereira, were not really caught napping. Volume at the city's old terminal in 1956 was about 3,000,000 passengers a year. Though the forecast for 1965 was 7,000,000, the Los Angeles planners decided to bet on eleven million. Even then, they were short of the mark, and the estimates for this year are close to 20 million, and for 1975 a whopping 55 million...
Before taking that plunge, Myers and Kenison rounded up three friends to help: Adman William L. Pereira Jr., 29, son of the famed architect-planner; Lud Renick, 37, a realty and restaurant investor; and Lawyer Mark T. Gates, 30. "None of us knew what we were getting into," recalls Pereira. "At first, it didn't look too difficult. If we'd known, we probably would not have started." Sensibly, their first move was to recruit two veteran aviation consultants: Thomas Wolfe, 65, a onetime vice president of both Western and Pan American, who is now Air California...
...Mehrtens that the interviews were better than being psychoanalyzed. Oceanographer Jacques Yves Cousteau recalls with a shudder, and some slight exaggeration, that he was rarely alone for three months: "Your reporters followed me everywhere. Once I tried to hide in a motel, but they found me." And Architect William Pereira likened his interview to an initiation rite: "You approach it with apprehension and endure it with what you hope is a convincing show of manly valor...
Simon, Cousteau and Pereira all were pleased with the finished stories, which we hope is the case most of the time. But it is not always. "It was tantamount to a mountain laboring to bring forth a mouse," thundered Boston's Cardinal Gushing after he read our cover on him. Said Producer David Merrick, who will say anything: "Is it true the entire staff of TIME...