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Three years have lapsed since drillers struck oil on Alaska's North Slope, touching off a black-gold rush that promised to make the relatively poor state the "Kuwait of the North." What has happened to the promise? To find out, TIME Correspondent Patricia Delaney spent ten days trekking across Alaska. Her report...
...places. All together, more than 3,500,000 Americans and Canadians will cross the Atlantic this year. Because of the recession, the recalcitrance of the stock market and the horse-and-buggy pace of economic recovery, even middle-aged tourists will be looking for bargains rather than luxury. The rush of cut-rate travelers to Europe is having many economic consequences-and not just in Europe itself. Among them...
...first quarter of 1971. The U.S. lines did less well than the average; Pan Am registered 38% and TWA 39.5%. True, the lines usually have slim tourist business during the early and late months of the year and raise their averages by packing them in during the summer rush. The biggest winners on the North Atlantic are two lines that cater to the ethnic trade: Israel's El Al last year ran 68.8% full, and Irish-Aer Lingus scored 68.5%. The emptiest carrier on the run was Japan Air Lines, with...
Mail-Order Minister. The agency responsible for making the commuters' ship come in is the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District, which launched the luxury ferry service to alleviate rush-hour traffic on the overcrowded bridge. To help attract the 575 commuters who now make the daily round trip aboard the Golden Gate, the district administrators arranged the ferry schedule to get businessmen to their offices on time and ensured dependable performance by ordering maintenance engineers to work every night to keep the craft shipshape. The district also placed two captains on board, one to steer...
Cushion of Air. One successful ferry will hardly make a dent in the traffic jams caused by the 100,000 autos that now use the Golden Gate Bridge daily, 31,000 at rush hours alone. By 1980, the rush-hour figure should be 47,000. Thus imaginative district officials are now planning to siphon off more bridge commuters with four ferries that are larger (750 passengers) and more luxurious (two bars). Later this summer they will also begin trial runs with a giant 60-passenger air-cushion vehicle, which will skim across the Bay in just 15 minutes. But District...