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Thomas J. Kent Jr., a Berkeley planner, says that "the radical experiment that began in the U.S. 50 years ago in local self-government has run out in the biggest cities." No doubt with some exaggeration, he holds that all cities with populations of a million or more are "too large to be manageable as democratic self-governments." A somewhat similar theme was sounded by Leonardo...
...listener who said he had come to find out what he as a city planner could do to abate the urban crisis, was disappointed. "I have no idea how you can be useful," Hayden told...
...whirled out of space, NORAD's cameras, radar network and computer banks watched the descending debris until it was finally incinerated in the atmosphere. Other eyes also followed its fiery fall. Using NORAD data dubbed TIP (for Target Impact Point), Herbert E. Roth, a Denver-based jet-training planner for United Air Lines, operates a unique one-man satellite-early-warning system. It alerts commercial airline pilots to the possibility of space debris hurtling across their flight paths...
...delegates, alternates, functionaries, newsmen and spectators in Convention Hall, Evans limited the talk to 25 minutes. Nominating speeches were supposed to be restricted to 15 minutes and seconding speeches to four. Even the invocations were ordered held to 90 seconds. Explained a convention planner: "A clergyman is no different from a politician when he sees a camera and a microphone in front...
...them $50 million last year in extra crew time, fuel costs and other expenses. The A.T.A. also figures that passengers lost another $50 million in wasted time. The problem will become more acute when the jumbo jets are flying. "From the point of view of economy," says TWA Airport Planner Donald Graf, "you can't let a 747 stand around too long. They're so expensive that we've got to get them back in the air as quickly as possible...