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...Around most major U.S. cities, home owners have risen in vehement objection to the noise of air traffic. Pending suits against Los Angeles International, for example, now add up to an incredible $4 billion. In New York City, authorities have been turned down every time they have proposed a site for a new jetport within 75 miles of Times Square. Indeed, New Jersey Governor William T. Cahill's election platform called for prohibition of any large new airports in the northern part of his state. St. Louis, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Atlanta and San Francisco-all face the same problem...
Along with its eye for color, ERTS has another useful capability. Because of the timing of its polar orbit, the satellite passes over the same spot on earth at almost precisely the same hour every 18 days. Lighting conditions at each site are thus unchanged (except for the slow seasonal drift in the angle of the sun and possibly different cloud cover). As a result, there is little difference in shadows from one picture to the next, and ERTS can quickly spot any changes in terrestrial features since its last visit...
Paris Correspondent Paul Ress fought more basic elements to reach the Valley of Marvels in the Maritime Alps for a report to the Science section. The site of a rich collection of Bronze Age art, the valley is blocked by snow ten months of the year. Ress traveled there in a Jeep over a goat path, across creaky wooden bridges-in the midst of a rainstorm. If anything could dry up one's ardor for work, it might be covering a drought in India. New Delhi Correspondent William Stewart journeyed 1,000 miles to remote Andhra Pradesh, spent...
...Dalmas-de-Tende, 30 miles northeast of Nice. The travelers all brought back tales of mysterious rock carvings, but no one could explain their origin. Were the ancient artists some Carthaginians who once lived in the region? Were they prehistoric men? Now, as a result of on-site study by a French archaeologist, the secrets of the carvings are beginning to come clear...
Aquarius, the water bearer, has gone to the well once more. This time he is in Miami Beach, a few miles south of Cape Kennedy, site of his devil hunt in Of a Fire on the Moon. In the retirement capital of the world, Norman Mailer is on familiar ground. He has already freelanced his way through three national conventions, most tellingly at the street brawls in Chicago...