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...sparkling Metro is just the most recent result of a boom in urban rail-system construction. "There is more development going on now than in the past 100 years," exults Jack Gilstrap, executive vice president of the American Public Transit Association (A.P.T.A.). Since 1972, when San Francisco cut the ribbon on its high-tech headache, BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), six other U.S. cities have opened new rail systems. Six cities currently have lines under construction. Thirteen other systems either have been proposed or are on the drawing boards...
Amuzzle we'll send to wherever the Band is; A grandfather clock to time-teller Dave Landes; Of the Indy's Dave Finegold the stockings we'll stuff With a typewriter ribbon in case things get tough. The wags at the 'Poon get a joke book to read Before their next issue; it's just what they need. Their Sackbut-that-was should be sure not to bungle; A Bells on the stage is worth ten in the Jungle...
Lebanon? "It ain't our war!" barks Kimm's brother John, 28. But all mourn regardless. Each house around Letha Kimm's has a black ribbon tied to the porch. And in the rich, rolling countryside some miles east, Ed Kimm will soon be buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, not far from the graves of his father and brother...
...Pointer who came to the Nixon White House a year after McFarlane; both worked from 1973 to 1975 for Kissinger, and Scowcroft retained McFarlane as his deputy when he succeeded Kissinger as Ford's National Security Adviser. More recently Scowcroft has been chairman of Reagan's blue-ribbon MX-missile commission, an important role that the White House might be reluctant to muddle by asking him to serve once more as in-house adviser. Scowcroft's honest brokering between the Administration and Capitol Hill helped produce a more realistic U.S. position at the START negotiations. This, however...
After two days of intense discussions, the blue ribbon panel of 40 professors, politicians, political activists, and journalists approved a resolution which called for examination of a series of reforms. They suggested moving voter registration, which in some states is as much as a month before the election, to election day, and keeping the polls open for 24 hours. And they encouraged networks to exercise voluntary restraint in using exit polling to project election winners on the argument that voters hearing an early projection would feet that their vote counted less, and would be less likely to use it. Participants...